Our newsletter coordinator, Ben Hoshour, discusses Pagan Clergy , the need for trained Pagan Clergy, and Cherry Hill Seminary’s vital role in the lives of current and future Pagan Clergy in his blog, The Pagan Perspective. Says Ben, “As a Pagan Community, we desperately need to reevaluate our concept of clergy, organization, and community. We need to liberate these ideas from prior association and re-create the in our own unique Pagan way. Even more importantly, we need to learn to support each other and our community” You can read his post here.
Ben Hoshour on Pagan Clergy
Academic Dean Reflects on Magickal Thinking
Our Academic Dean, Wendy Griffin, PhD., recently discussed her experiences with a Cherry Hill Seminary course entitled “Why Magickal Thinking isn’t crazy” in her blog, The Retiring Mind. She shares a story of her participation in a distance viewing experiement and invites the readers to try it for themselves. To read her post, click here.
The Midwinter Child
Celebrating the birth of a child at the Midwinter Solstice is a tradition that spans multiple cultures. Ben Hoshour, our newletter coordinator, wrote this beautiful informational article about Solar Gods that explores similarities in myths about the Midwinter Child. The article is reproduced here, in its entirety, with permission from Ben. To read more of Ben’s work, please visit his blog, The Pagan Perspective.





