The New York Times recently interviewed Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman, the creative forces behind ‘Becky Nurse of Salem,’ a new a dark comedy about power, inheritance and, of course, witchcraft, is now in previews at Lincoln Center Theater. It… Continue Reading
Jacob Taubes was a Jewish rabbi and professional lecturer who embraced a philosophy-informed lifestyle that resonates with circumstances we also encounter in the life of the Prophet of the Lovely Star. The New York Times Book Review ran a piece… Continue Reading
The Sunday New York Times Magazine ran an investigation of part of the legacy of the Philadelphia Police Department’s bombing of the group home occupied by members of the religious group, the Christian Movement For Life, popularly known as MOVE.… Continue Reading
We received this extraordinary image and note today: “Based on events in my country Iran, my attention was drawn to one of my drawings and I understood some points in my drawings . It seemed that the drawing was narrating… Continue Reading
Earlier this year, the New York Times Book Review ran a piece on a new book titled In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Withc Hunts and Why Women Are Still On Trial, written by Mona Collet. The book… Continue Reading
The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich by Stephen Flowers was just published. The posted description says: A critical history of the roots of Nazi occultism and its continuing influence • Explores… Continue Reading
Religion News Service recently published a feature noting that Rightwing Christian Nationalists have become increasingly aggressive in their harassment of Pagan and Wiccan groups. The article begins: “As widespread immunity and milder COVID-19 strains have spread across the U.S., pagans… Continue Reading
Even a cursory study of modern ceremonial magick reveals that its roots lie in 19th century occult interests, which in turn revolved around Spiritualism (originally “Spiritism”) with the transition coming via Emma Hardinge Britten and Pascal Beverly Randolph (n.b. a… Continue Reading
Here’s an interesting opinion piece that ran in the New York Times earlier this month making the case that the key voter base for the Republican Party is not the Religious Right, as popularly supposed, but secular “Middle American Radicals”… Continue Reading
This was a new one on me, an early American labor union that was modelled on Freemasonry – the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, founded by Uriah Stephens in Philadelphia in 1862. Wikipedia etc is scant on details… Continue Reading