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A New Jersey lawsuit involving Wiccan religious accommodations in prison has drawn national attention, highlighting debates over inmate rights, transgender incarceration policy, and how conservative media frames minority religions such as Wicca.
“Since Pantheacon’s demise in 2020, the West Coast has been feeling the loss of a Pagan conference,” writes Lauren Parker from the 2026 Spirit Northwest conference. “In the era of Discords and government control of internet spaces, in-person congregation remains the most important.”
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, we celebrate the graduates of Cherry Hill Seminary, cover the UK’s National Secular Society’s criticism of a local council’s use of the Lord’s Prayer, note the release of a new blue morpho butterfly in honor of David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, share Star’s Tarot of the Week, and remember Gordon White in Crossings of the Veil.
A sacred Indigenous geoglyph in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert was damaged during border wall construction, prompting outrage from Indigenous leaders, archaeologists, and environmental advocates concerned about irreversible spiritual and cultural loss.
The Trump Administration has rescinded the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, removing conservation as a formal public lands “use” and shifting federal land policy toward energy development, mining, grazing, and other extractive priorities amid criticism from environmental and conservation organizations.