A group will be adding a little pagan spirit to this year’s Coupeville Arts and Crafts Festival.

Source: Whidbey pagans to show pride at festival | South Whidbey Record

“This is a worldwide, but certainly American, trend toward heterodoxy — toward individuals cooking up their own spiritual or religious stew and cooking it up their way,” Burklo said. “You’re seeing an aggregation of disaffiliation, people coming up with their own meaning-making and their own personal spiritualities.”

Source: How millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals - Los Angeles Times

Wiccan professor sues St. Bonaventure, her alma mater, for discrimination.

Source: Wiccan professor sues St. Bonaventure for discrimination

(RNS) — As long as millennials adapt rituals and spells as a force for change, companies will hawk those rituals and spells to preserve the status quo.

Source: Can witches and consumer culture coexist? - Religion News Service

A new group has organized with the hopes of creating a Pagan credit union.The project began as a conversation between Pagan leaders* at the 2018 Parliament of World Religions, and has made headway since then under the direction of Lawrence Lerner. Lerner is a Wiccan priest who serves the Washington State community, and he has extensive experience in business and finance.A former executive at PwC, also known as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Lerner has some 25 years as a digital payment pioneer and executive. H

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Last week a fire at Laughingbrook Spellcrafting...

(RNS) — Once a fringe spiritual practice, witchcraft has become a key, and increasingly popular, component of feminist political resistance.

Source: Witchcraft becomes a political stance — and a booming business - Religion News Service

Shemini Atzeret—the Jewish holiday that comes at the end of Sukkot—is a time when Jews around the world say Tefilat HaGeshem, a prayer for rain. And the people who will gather to mark the holiday at Jewitch Camp outside San Francisco on the evening of Oct. 4 are no exception. But this gathering, described as […]

Source: In the Bay Area, Jewish Witches Gather To Observe Shemini Atzeret – Tablet Magazine

Abbas became interested in religion while covering the Iranian Revolution. "I could see that the waves of passion [that were] raised by the Revolution were not going to stop at the borders," he says.

Source: Photographer Abbas Chronicles 'What People Do In The Name Of God' : NPR

Alex Mar’s new book overlooks the radical history of oppressed women.

Source: The Rise of the Hipster Witch | The New Republic

In a unique event, religious groups in Germany's capital opened their doors for one night, to highlight the city's diversity and provide an insight into almost 100 faith groups. DW's Kate Brady reports from Berlin.

Source: Berlin faith groups unite for ′Long Night of Religions′ | Germany | DW.COM | 30.08.2015