Paganism
Review: “The Green Knight” – what lingers after the red is gone
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Weekend editor Eric O. Scott reviews the new film by David Lowery, The Green Knight.
Catholicism
Column: In the Presence of Mary
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When friends leave her with a garden statue of the Virgin Mary, Sheri Barker has to explore her own relationship as a Witch to this vision of the divine feminine.
TrothMoot
Column: Sacred Space
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Luke Babb writes on stumbling upon – and then creating – sacred places, including constructing altars for the Heathen gods at Trothmoot 2019.
Paganism
Column: the Virgin of Guadalupe – a Colonial Crossroad
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There is something special about being a polytheist. Belief and practice with multiple gods necessitates an understanding that all gods are real. Certainly, polytheists argue over a “hard” or “soft” approach, debating whether the gods are actual individual entities or exist in a more archetypal manner, but either way a polytheist is able to accept another person’s religious experience with another deity as valid. We are comfortable with experiences that differ from our own. This is much more difficult in monotheistic faiths.
Paganism
Column: Black August
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The dog days of summer are here, marked by the rising of the star Sirius in the morning sky, “the star they give the name of Orion’s Dog, which is brightest among the stars, and yet is wrought as a sign of evil and brings on the great fever for unfortunate mortals.”¹ On August 13, Sylville Smith was killed by a Milwaukee police officer. In the following two nights, eight businesses and numerous cars were burned, rocks and bottles were thrown at the police, and guns were fired on multiple occasions, resulting in at least one hospitalization. Meanwhile, the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center has alleged that the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) prison gang may be planning “to kill correctional officers and Aryan Brotherhood gang members” in commemoration of Black August. Black August originated in the 1970s following the August 7, 1970 deaths of Jonathan Jackson, James McClain and William Christmas during a prisoner liberation and hostage-taking at the Marin County Courthouse and the August 21, 1971 death of George Jackson during a prison rebellion in San Quentin. Prisoners participating in Black August “wore black armbands on their left arm and studied revolutionary works, focusing on the works of George Jackson.