Arts & Culture
“Shape of Dreams” shows Carrington’s surreal dreamscape in the third dimension
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Meg Elison reviews the exhibition of the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s sculpture currently on display at L’SPACE gallery in New York City.
Paganism
Pagan Community Notes: Week of June 3, 2026
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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: honeybees may be engineering their queens, a call for submissions on AI and Paganism, allegations of “cult-like” activity in an online occult community, Star’s Tarot of the Week, and—of course—therapy donkeys. (Seriously, why have we been missing out?)
Editorial
Editorial: The Interfaith Opportunity in Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical
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Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical warns about artificial intelligence, exploitation, and dehumanizing systems — but beyond its Catholic framework, Magnifica Humanitas may also offer an unexpected invitation for interfaith cooperation around human dignity, ecology, labor, and shared ethical concerns.
Opinion
Opinion: Necromancy for Me, Not for Thee: AI, Catholic Anxiety, and the Pagan Scapegoat
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As warnings about AI “necromancy” circulate in Catholic discourse, Pagans once again appear as the unspoken cautionary tale. But the real ethical concern may not be communicating with the dead, but consent, authority, and imitation.
Culture
Twilight of the Twentieth Century
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The Norse myths are laced with a melancholic focus on the end of an age. Karl Seigfried notes that today it also feels as though a way of living is passing. But just as Ragnarök leads to a rebirth, so too might our own times – if we are willing to work for it.