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 Mystic South in Atlanta this weekend, the Bacchus twerking incident and more news ..read more

The Memphis-Shelby County Schools Board becomes the latest school board required to pay The Satanic Temple for blocking their After School Satan Club ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 this country and for the world? Will we be a society that practices empathy, striving to care for our citizens and embracing our differences? Or will we regress into a Christofascist ethno-state, where we demonize our neighbors and strip them of their human dignity ..read more

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. Algunos los llaman críptidos, otros monstruos, otros simplemente figuras y personajes del folclore y la mitología. Yo los llamo cultura. Por eso decidí darle una oportunidad a echarle el guante a Cryptids, Creatures & Critters: A Manual of Monsters & Mythos from Around the World, por Rachel Quinney ..read more

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 widespread opposition from Indigenous communities and their advocates ..read more

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 a campaign to eradicate pagan shrines, prompting debates about religious freedom and tolerance in Nigeria ..read more

The newly converted, long-troubled, and now re-themed flume ride at Walt Disney World has reportedly been cleansed of New Orleans Voodoo references to appease Christian guests ..read more

The Perseids meteor shower begins tonight and will last until September 1st, with the peak of the cosmic display on August 12th. This year's peak will be especially worth making time to see, as we will have a moon-less sky during the pre-dawn hours ..read more