Pagan Community Notes: Week of July 25, 2024
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, Circle Sanctuary’s green burials featured in media; we are saddened to hear Most Reverend Ruthann Amarteifio has crossed the veil; conference and events including…
School Board decisions against After School Satan Clubs are becoming expensive
The Memphis-Shelby County Schools Board becomes the latest school board required to pay The Satanic Temple for blocking their After School Satan Club. Continue reading School Board decisions against After…
Editorial: Conservatives are calling Kamala Harris a Witch. Here’s why that’s dangerous
Faced with a woman of color at the top of the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket, opponents turn to a reliable trope of sexist defamation: call that a woman a Witch.…
New exhibit explores Viking Age women’s role as sorcerers and prophets
A new exhibition at Denmark’s National Museum uses the figure of the völva, a female oracle and sorcerer, to explore how pre-Christian Scandinavians thought of time, religion, and destiny. Continue…
Opinion: When History Threatens to Rhyme
We stand, as we have for so long now, at a crossroads. What kind of society do we want to be? What will be our legacy for the future of…
Reseña de Libro: Cryptids, Creatures & Critters, by Rachel Quinney
Soy un fanático nato de la fantasía. Si llevan esa misma fantasía, cosas que deberían ser imposibles, a la vida real, caigo enamorado. Tengo esta fascinación por las criaturas imposibles.…
Review: Cryptids, Creatures & Critters
I’m a natural born sucker for fantasy. Bring that same fantasy, things that should be impossible, to real life, and I am all yours. I have this fascination for impossible…
Pagan Community Notes: Week of July 18, 2024
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Chaac-Poseidon controversy, “satanic” reproductive rights statue beheaded, Lilith Dorsey announces major project, new Circle Sanctuary conference, and more news and events. Continue reading Pagan…
Proposed Brazilian Law undermines Indigenous Rights: “the consequence could be their annihilation”
Three years ago, Brazil’s Supreme Court overturned arguments prohibiting Indigenous land claims from before 1988, but a new proposed constitutional amendment threatens these rights by imposing a timeline limit, sparking…
Nigerian practitioners concerned about rising “anti-pagan” rhetoric
In response to a perceived rise “Neopaganism” among Nigerian youth, Catholic Bishops in Owerri expressed alarm linking magical and ritualistic practices to crime, subsequently the nearby Anambra State government launched…