The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/politics)
A new executive order aims to modernize the nation’s child-welfare system, but advocates warn its emphasis on faith-based partnerships and “basic biological truths” may open the door to religious gatekeeping and discrimination against minority faiths and LGBTQ+ families.
Happy Halloween! To celebrate, Karl E.H. Seigfried considers novels by George A. Romero & Daniel Kraus, F. Paul Wilson, and John Bellairs, and what their horrors can teach us about the horrors that face us today.
At Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, Indigenous and interfaith leaders continue a years-long fight to protect holy ground from a proposed copper mine, testing the boundaries of U.S. commitments to religious freedom and environmental justice.
“Whether in public, or in secret, we need to oppose this regime with everything we’ve got,” writes Storm Faerywolf as today’s No Kings protests gather around the world. “And since this is a publication for Pagans and Witches, this means magic.”
The Senate’s confirmation of Brittany Panuccio restores a conservative majority at the EEOC, signaling major shifts in workplace policy. From diversity programs to religious accommodation, the agency’s new direction could reshape how equality, faith, LGBTQ+, and gender rights as well as how it applies the definition of “religious freedom,” Pagan organizations and employers may face new uncertainty and scrutiny as employment policies once meant to protect all faiths may now show preference to majority traditions.
Telling Phyllis that I wasn’t Marion, that I didn’t know if a Marion had ever lived here – that was just a little sad. Every ghost that I’ve interacted with as a practitioner has been the same kind of conversation, mundane in the details and mystical only in the medium.
