Culture
ICE and the High One
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Karl E.H. Seigfried looks at the last month’s escalating resistance to ICE and CBP’s Operation Metro Blitz in Minneapolis and calls on Heathens to embrace the Hávamál’s call to give evil no peace.
Culture
Opinion: Elon Musk and the Theology of Empathy
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Just as sane people don’t need to embrace the insanity of the Trumpies, Heathens of positive intent don’t need to take on any of the awfulness of the neo-völkisch haters and their ilk. We can make empathy a central point of what we believe and what we practice.
Opinion
Opinion: When History Threatens to Rhyme
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We stand, as we have for so long now, at a crossroads. What kind of society do we want to be? What will be our legacy for the future of this country and for the world? Will we be a society that practices empathy, striving to care for our citizens and embracing our differences? Or will we regress into a Christofascist ethno-state, where we demonize our neighbors and strip them of their human dignity?
Culture
Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the Wizard in the Forest
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As we perform the enchantment of mythicization on our world, we lift people, places, and things from the mundane to the meaningful. The trivial becomes tremendous and the ephemeral becomes enduring. Myth, regardless of veracity, can have more power than any truth. This power is not always used for positive ends.
Paganism
Review: Treasure Behind a Hundred Doors in the New Volume of “Our Troth”
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Lyonel Perabo reviews the first volume of the new edition of Our Troth, “Heathen History.”