The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/author/manny/page/2)
Manny Moreno (pro: he/él/lui) was born in Cuba and raised in the American South. He lives in South Florida and Nemi, Italy. He has been in the Pagan community for almost four decades. He is a Witch and was raised as a child of Oyá. He is encouraged by the Balance within the natural world and enjoys storms and the night. Manny is married and splits his free time between the Florida Swamps, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Alban Hills. He is also a beekeeper, orchid-grower, and builder of bat houses.
Archaeologists in central Romania have uncovered a rare 7,500-year-old clay figurine depicting a female figure with arms raised in invocation. Discovered during preventive excavations, the small Neolithic artifact illuminates the symbolic and spiritual world of Europe’s earliest farming communities.
“When contemporary commentators describe authoritarian politics as ‘pagan,'” writes Manny Moreno, “they risk reinforcing an exclusionary narrative: that Christianity civilized power, while paganism represented brute force. That binary not only oversimplifies history; it marginalizes living religious minorities.”
The Becket Fund’s 2025 Religious Freedom Index shows rising support for religion in public life, yet its findings leave key questions unanswered for Pagans. Christian-centered examples dominate the survey, highlighting tensions between broad claims of pluralism and uneven real-world application.
WMore than 75,000 marched in Minneapolis demanding ICE leave the Twin Cities. Stone Circle Wicca answered a clergy call in solidarity, framing resistance as a sacred duty rooted in humanization, interfaith cooperation, and the defense of dignity through sustained, community-centered action.
This week’s National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance and National Prayer Breakfast present contrasting tones but a shared theology, exposing how Christian nationalist ideas about sin, repentance, and national identity are being woven into the fabric of American political and religious life.