Editorial: Remember that Venezuela is a real place

Weekend editor Eric O. Scott reflects on events that unfolded this weekend. As bombs fell and political justifications followed, Venezuelan civilians paid the price. Venezuela is not an abstraction or a geopolitical chessboard, but a real place, filled with real people whose lives were extinguished without warning. This editorial examines power, accountability, and the moral cost of treating distant suffering as disposable.

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.

Opinion: Addressing the Offended  

“Things are much worse now than they were even just last month,” writes Storm Faerywolf in a fiery response to his critics. “But to the ‘conservative’ Pagan, this is just what the doctor ordered, apparently. Shame on you.”