Pagan Community Notes: Week of June 26, 2025

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: We reflect on Canada’s celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day and commemorate the anniversary of Stonewall. Cherry Hill Seminary launches a historic interfaith partnership. Poet Sara Amis shares new work, and Star offers her latest weekly Tarot reading. Plus—just before publication—breaking news from Port St. Lucie, FL: a man in possession of books on “witchcraft” has been charged with eight counts of animal cruelty, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Opinion: Niemöller No More

One Halloween, when I was young enough to still go trick-or-treating with my parents, a pair of boys from my school ran around my block chanting “Nazi! Nazi! Nazi!” while I stood there in my out-of-the-box Darth Vader or Spider-Man costume. When my dad was the age that I was then, he was in an extermination camp.