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A new study reports high rates of likely AI-generated books in religious publishing, with Witchcraft among the most affected categories, amplifying concerns from Pagan authos and leaders about artificial intelligence, creativity, accuracy, spiritual practice, and relationships with the sacred.
A federal settlement protecting Christian employers and a Southern Baptist appeal to the Justice Department raise a broader question: Will the government’s expanding religious-liberty framework offer minority faiths the same protections in the workplace?
“Children make up rituals,” writes Meg Elison in this retrospective on Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s novel. “They make up stories. Like the kids in The Egypt Game, they make up religion, even if their parents assure them that they have religion at home.”
Storm Faerywolf offers recommendations on a number of recently published, reissued, and forthcoming books, including titles by Jason Mankey, Janet Farrar, Chris Allaun, Jake Morningstar, Heron Michelle, and Kaelan Strouse.
TWH welcomes back Alan U. Dalul, who describes how being kept in limbo for nearly a year waiting for his green card, unable to work, taught him new truths about being a Witch.