News
2024: A Year in Review from our Pagan Window
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As we say goodbye to 2024, we take a moment to look back on major stories we covered this past year.
Culture
Opinion: To Honor the Ancestors
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Like a “Sunday Catholic” who is extremely devout on Sunday mornings but lives a decidedly un-Christian life for the rest of the week, we can all too easily make grand speeches over the drinking horn at blót but neglect to put intention into action when we step out into the wider world. Are we honoring the ancestors in our lives? Or are we dishonoring them?
Culture
A Dispatch from Greater Chicagoland Pagan Pride
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Despite challenges from rain, COVID-19 and venue changes, Greater Chicagoland Pagan Pride returned triumphantly, uniting nearly 1,000 attendees with workshops, rituals, and activism-focused teachings, all celebrating the power of community, resilience, and finding one’s voice.
Paganism
Judge bars defense from using Odinist theory in murder trial
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An Indiana judge has barred the use of Odinism as a defense in the trial of Richard Allen, who is accused of murdering two girls in 2017. The presentation of the Odinism defense last year prompted Heathen organizations to issue statements clarifying the practice of Heathenry.
News
UK’s new Labour Government stops A303 Stonehenge project.
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After years of controversy and a UNESCO warning about “permanent, irreversible harm,” the Stonehenge tunnel project, first approved in November 2020, has been canceled by the UK’s newly-elected Labour government.