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Over the past week, Democrats have giddily celebrated the ascension of Kamala Harris to the top of the ticket. That’s great, but it doesn’t deal with the issue of elderly leaders in this nation of ours. Maybe the tale of Egil Skallagrimsson, the Viking poet who lived to old age, has something to teach us here.
When disasters come from all sides, where can we turn? Where do we direct our best efforts, and where can we find solace? At a time when questions are many, when words can no longer contain my shock and disbelief at events once believed impossible, I think of my father’s advice from years ago: T-R-Y.
Karen Dales, a Jewish Gardnerian High Priestess and Witch conducts some interviews and shares a sobering message about the prevalence of antisemitism in Paganism.
TWH’s editor-in-chief, Manny Tejeda Moreno, looks forward to 2024 through a review of the documentary “The Mission,” whose story of a Christian missionary killed by an uncontacted tribe unwilling to be converted portends a continued rise in spiritual violence.
If we really believe in practicing world-affirming religions, then we should affirm the world we live in by working for the good of the planet and all that live upon it.
TWH’s editor-in-chief Manny Tejeda Moreno responds to Rabbi Wolpe’s atrocious attack on Paganism in the pages of “The Atlantic.”
