Commissioner Confirmation Signals Major EEOC Shift on Equality, Faith, and Workplace Rights

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.

National Parks as Shrines

“I have discovered that parks help fill a void for me,” writes Meagan Fischer, “of finding community in my devotion to the web of life. After years of frantic activism, I am learning to care for myself for the long haul, to surround myself with beauty.”

Fear of Ghosts

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.