Paganism’s Priest Problem

Sophia Burns
4 min readSep 29, 2020
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I know several adults who aren’t sure whether they were raised Pagan.

Their parents weren’t Wiccan initiates or members of any Pagan organizations. They didn’t explicitly self-identify as Pagan, but they didn’t describe themselves as non-Pagan, either. And every year, they celebrated the Solstices and Equinoxes at home, taught their children that nature was sacred and that divinity need not be only masculine, and made…

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Sophia Burns

Paganism, Buddhism, Classics, philosophy, LGBTQ culture, and the art of living well. Former activist; I don’t trust culture war. http://patreon.com/sophiaburns