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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: The Blue Star tradition’s Wellspring Coven updates their statement on Klein, Portland protests and Naked Athena, LokiFest canceled, Greg Harder crosses the Veil, and more!
Lyonel Perabo reviews the first volume of the new edition of Our Troth, “Heathen History.”
Karl E.H. Seigfried explores the linguistic roots of the Heathen concepts of “innangard” and “utangard,” and traces their modern conception back to the völkisch scholar Vilhelm Grønbech.
Karl E.H. Seigfried’s interviews with four members of Berkano Hearth Union (BHU), a community for Heathens and people interested in Heathenry based in Georgia.
Pagan Perspectives
Over the past year, and especially since the Frith Forge conference in Germany, I’ve noticed increasing use and discussion of the term “inclusive Heathenry.”
It often seems more of a rebranding than a revolutionary concept. Practitioners of Ásatrú and Heathenry have long taken sides over issues of inclusion, with some taking hard stances on either end of the spectrum and many situating themselves in a complicated middle ground. The battles that have raged for so long have been between positions that were often defined by the other side. The universalist position supposedly said that anyone could be Heathen – no questions asked. The folkish position supposedly said that only straight white people could be Heathen – with many questions asked.