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In this Week’s Pagan Community Notes, Sinners feasts on Oscar nominations, a UK tribunal blocks charitable status for an esotericism research network, Gaea Retreat Center enacts Zero Tolerance policy, Star’s tarot of the week, and Christian nationalist rhetoric surfaces on X (say it isn’t so), with one author calling for Pagan deportations, increased suppression of women, and your compulsory submission to Christianity.
Medusa is making a little comeback. Recent archaeological discoveries in Türkiye and Austria reveal unexpected images of Medusa, from a smiling ceiling carving to a finely cut gemstone cameo. These finds highlight her ancient role as a protective figure and her enduring presence in religious, civic, and personal life.
A Ninth Circuit ruling on faith-based hiring clarifies how the First Amendment’s church autonomy doctrine limits state interference, with implications extending beyond Christianity to Pagan and other minority religious organizations.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: a controversy long foreseen by the Everglades Moon Local Council begins to unfold. We also share Star’s Tarot of the Week. Meanwhile, we are saddened to report that The Goddess and the Green Man in Glastonbury, England, will close its doors at Imbolc. We also cover the Miccosukee Tribe’s response to what appears to be a politically motivated presidential veto, and revisit the storm that helped ignite Norway’s deadliest witch trials.
New Pew research shows most Americans who change religions do so by age 30, often drifting away rather than rejecting belief outright. As religious affiliation declines, many are not abandoning spirituality but reshaping faith, meaning, and identity outside traditional institutions.
Weekend editor Eric O. Scott reflects on events that unfolded this weekend. As bombs fell and political justifications followed, Venezuelan civilians paid the price. Venezuela is not an abstraction or a geopolitical chessboard, but a real place, filled with real people whose lives were extinguished without warning. This editorial examines power, accountability, and the moral cost of treating distant suffering as disposable.
