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Annotations: Witches and Pagans and Groypers, Oh My!

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Samuel D. James
Nov 01, 2025
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Happy Saturday. Welcome to Annotations, a weekly feature for subscribers, offering a handful of noteworthy things to read.

Erick-Woods Erickson
: “Witches to Right of Me. Pagans to the Left.”

I bring this up because Casey Means is President Trump’s nominee to be Surgeon General.

Casey Means wrote about how she channelled moon magic, spoke to trees, and engaged in “indigenous wisdom.” Casey Means even used a spiritual medium and psychedelics to align herself with spiritual powers and connect herself to the spiritual realm.

Now, notice how many Christians in politics are very, very quiet about a woman who has not just practiced, but advocated occult practices being advanced for the Surgeon General’s nomination.

Many of the very Christians who attacked Tim Keller for his “third way” approach to faith in politics are not just sitting silently by, but many of them actually support putting this practitioner of the occult into office.

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