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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?
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, we explore a range of stories, including parks and places being renamed to their original Indigenous names, California removing Indigenous slurs from place names, Circle Sanctuary participating in Wreaths Across America, Animist Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen delivers a TED Talk, Nexion releases new music, and more news.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Honoring Indigenous People’s Day, Taíno revival, events, and happenings.
Does the value of religiosity as response end at the line of the sacred circle drawn by practitioners, or does it truly make a difference outside of that circle? Beyond therapeutic effects for the practitioners themselves, are we just doing a form of that most ineffective and overly online form of religiosity in the face of violence and horror, the sending of “thoughts and prayers”?
The Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nation responds to atrocities committed on their children, person arrested for smuggling and selling endangered species animal skulls and body parts, Remembering the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, Cherry Hill Seminary offers a new course on Paganism and Democracy, and more news.