Naturalistic Paganism
Selena Fox has been selected for the well deserved Lifetime Achievement Award by the Aquarian Tabernacle Church – ATC Intl.! It will be presented at the 2025 Hekate’s Sickle Festival, November 7-9 in Seattle, Washington State USA. You can register and attend at this link.
Selena Fox has accomplished so much in her life to make our world better, to make it safer for Pagans, and to give you rights that you might not be aware were lacking in the past. It’s wonderful to see her many accomplishments recognized with this well deserved honor!
From her bio on the Circle Sanctuary page:
Rev. Selena Fox is senior minister and high priestess of Circle Sanctuary, a Nature Spirituality church, Pagan resource center, and nature preserve with a worldwide Ecospirituality ministry that includes networking, publishing, education, environmental preservation, counseling, events sponsoring, and other work.
For more than thirty years, Rev. Fox has served as one of the elders, religious freedom activists, and public media spokespersons for the Wiccan religion and related forms of contemporary Paganism and Nature religion, nationwide and internationally. …
For many years, Rev. Fox has served as a consultant on Wiccan religious accommodation issues to chaplains in the US military, corrections, colleges and universities, hospices, mental health clinics, and hospitals. She is among the religious leaders appointed to and presently serving on the Religious Practices Advisory Committee to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. She also has served as an advisor on Wiccan, Pagan, and Nature religions religious accommodation issues to the Pentagon and US Department of Justice.
As part of her work, Rev. Selena Fox is active in the preservation of ancient and contemporary sacred sites of many religions. As Executive Director of Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve she oversees its ritual sites, including an ancient one that is on the National Register of Historic Places.
And there is so much more there. You can read the full bio here. Some of the obstacles to establishing a Pagan Sanctuary here in the United States (and especially in the conservative Midwest!) are detailed here.
I’ve been inspired by Selena Fox, for her perseverance in establishing Circle Sanctuary, for here many successes in guarding and expanding Pagan rights, and in her inclusion of so many, including here explicit and common welcome to Naturalistic Pagans like us! I got a chance to thank her for that and for all she does back in the Pantheacon days.What an honor and a joy to have lived at the same time as Selena Fox!
Starstuff, Contemplating: We are assemblages of ancient atoms forged in stars – atoms organized by history to the point of consciousness, now able to contemplate this sacred Universe of which we are a tiny, but wondrous, part.
Dr. Jon Cleland Host is a scientist who earned his PhD in materials science at Northwestern University & has conducted research at Hemlock Semiconductor and Dow Corning since 1997. He holds eight patents and has authored over three dozen internal scientific papers and eleven papers for peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the journal Nature. He has taught classes on biology, math, chemistry, physics and general science at Delta College and Saginaw Valley State University. Jon grew up near Pontiac, and has been building a reality-based spirituality for over 30 years, first as a Catholic and now as a Unitarian Universalist, including collaborating with Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow to spread the awe and wonder of the Great Story of our Universe (see www.thegreatstory.org, and the blog at evolutionarytimes.org). Jon and his wife have four sons, whom they embrace within a Universe-centered, Pagan, family spirituality. He currently moderates the yahoo group Naturalistic Paganism.
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