Africa
The “witch camps” of Ghana
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The “witch camps” of Ghana protect women accused of practicing “witchcraft” from further abuse or even death.
Paganism
Pandemic impact on “witch-hunts”
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TWH looks at how illness and pandemics affect some “witch hunt” behavior.
Paganism
South African venue sued after refusing to host same-sex wedding
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A same-sex couple in South Africa filed a legal complaint after being denied access to a wedding venue whose Christian owners cited a fear of ‘eternal consequences’ for agreeing to have the ceremony on their premises.
Heathenry
Column: The Forgiveness Ritual
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Karl E.H. Seigfried examines patterns of public forgiveness, and argues for a different ethic of repentance based on the Heathen principle of “we are our deeds.”
Paganism
Column: I Am the Son of a Refugee
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Today we are faced less with a crisis of immigration than a crisis for immigrants. The Trump administration continues to aggressively ramp up its war on undocumented immigrants, as it seeks to expand the federal government’s ability to use police as man hunters and to build new detention facilities. Refugees have been repeatedly scapegoated as terrorists as the president and his allies seek to block them from finding asylum in the United States. Shortly after the election, a Trump surrogate cited America’s Japanese-American internment camps during World War II as precedent for a national registry of Muslim immigrants. At the end of January, President Trump signed an executive order aiming to build more detention centers for arrested immigrants whose deportation is pending.