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Allie Beth Stuckey/Abby Trivett #fundie #magick #conspiracy mycharisma.com

What began as an online marketplace for handmade crafts has become the center of an unexpected spiritual debate.

According to conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey, Etsy’s recent enforcement against listings advertising spellcasting, curses, love spells and other occult services highlights a much deeper issue than questionable online sales—it reveals what she believes is an increasing normalization of witchcraft in mainstream culture.

“We’ve got a spiritual sickness in our culture, and the gospel is the answer,” Stuckey said during a recent broadcast. “When it’s becoming popularized, when it’s becoming normalized, when it’s becoming commercialized, when billions and billions of dollars are being made by people casting spells on others through a seemingly innocuous site like Etsy, we’ve got a problem.”

The discussion follows renewed attention to Etsy’s enforcement of a policy prohibiting the sale of metaphysical services since 2015.

According to Stuckey, the marketplace had long allowed vendors to advertise services such as love spells, curses, psychic readings and money manifestation rituals despite those written rules.
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She pointed to widespread reports that someone allegedly purchased a spell targeting conservative activist Charlie Kirk before his assassination, arguing that the controversy may have prompted Etsy to begin more aggressively policing its marketplace.
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Stuckey also warned Christians not to dismiss the occult as harmless entertainment while emphasizing that believers need not live in fear.

“This witchcraft doesn’t have any dominion over the Christian,” she said. “We are indwelt by the Holy Spirit… He who is in us is greater than he who is in the world.”

Still, she cautioned that the growing popularity of occult practices—including manifestation culture, tarot readings and online spellcasting—points to a broader spiritual hunger that cannot ultimately be satisfied apart from Christ.

All Israel News/Joshua Wander #fundie #crackpot mycharisma.com

The ancient Temple sacrifices could be offered today on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount if the Israeli government would allow them, and doing so would bring people one step closer to receiving the Messiah and possibly usher in a better era of peace, according to one American-Israeli rabbi who has spent decades trying to reestablish such rituals.

Joshua Wander told ALL ISRAEL NEWS that it is only because of Israel’s “apartheid system,” which does not allow Jews and Christians free access to the Temple Mount – and is today under the control of the Jordanian Muslim Waqf – that such practices have not begun.

He made the statement a week after police arrested youths who tried to bring a sacrificial offering to the mount during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which this year took place on May 21-22, 2026.

There are many people who mistakenly believe that we need to have either the mashiach [messiah] or the Beit HaMikdash [Third Temple] to start bringing sacrifices,” Wander said. “That is faulty thinking.”
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Jews have not performed sacrifices for nearly 2,000 years, and only a handful of groups and individuals have attempted to revive the practice. Many Israelis consider Wander and his supporters to be part of a fringe movement.

On Shavuot, police said they arrested more than a dozen youths who attempted to break into the Temple Mount compound to perform a sacrificial ritual. In this case, they were not bringing an animal but rather loaves of bread. According to Leviticus 23:17, Shavuot required worshippers to bring “two loaves of bread” as an offering.
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However, ascending the Temple Mount remains controversial within Judaism. Many rabbis continue to believe that Jews should not enter the site because they are ritually impure or because they may inadvertently walk through areas that once constituted the Holy of Holies, whose precise location remains uncertain