For immediate release
CONTACT: Oberon Zell: oberon@mcn.org
January 28, 2025
American Pagans stand in solidarity with
other religions in opposing draconian deportation policies.
Modern Pagans, who embrace a Nature-centered spirituality, comprise a significant constituency in America, with dozens of denominations, hundreds of organizations and millions of adherents.
The
following people from American Pagan organizations stand with the Right
Reverand Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington in her
invitation for our government to uphold the values of justice, mercy, charity,
hospitality, and compassion.
At
the inaugural prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral on Tuesday,
Jan. 21 Bishop Budde said: “In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy
upon the people in our country who are scared now. … Our God teaches us that we
are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were once all strangers in this
land.” –Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
We offer solidarity with Rt. Rev. Budde’s sentiments
and those of other religious bodies opposing President Trump’s campaign of
persecution and mass deportation of innocent immigrants seeking asylum in our
country. We embrace
the poem by Emma Lazarus on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty:
"…Give
me your tired, your poor,
Your
huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The
wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send
these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I
lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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- Ven. Oberon Zell
Founder, Primate, President - Rev. Judith M. Barnett, ThD
Founder, Pagan Preservation
Publisher, Green Egg magazine
Administrator, Church of All Worlds - Rev. Jacqueline “Omi” Zaleski Mackenzie, PhD
Priestess - Ret. Captain Donald James Mackenzie
Church of All Worlds (https://www.CAW.org) - Rhiannon Zell
High Priestess, Serpentstone - Jo Carson
Lead Priestess & President of the Board, Feraferia (https://feraferia.org) - Ellen Evert Hopman
Founder, Archdruid Emerita, Tribe of the Oak (https://www.tribeoftheoak.org) - Rob Smith (aka Jazz Smudgeson)
Archdruid, Tribe of the Oak (Tuatha na Dara) Druid Order (https://www.tribeoftheoak.org) - Orion Foxwood
Elder High Priest
Founding Elder of the Foxwood Temple of the Old Religion
Founder of the House of Brigh, Faery Seership Institute - M. Macha NightMare
National Interfaith Representative, Covenant of the Goddess
“Assuring Pagan Rights Since 1975” (https://www.cog.org) - Cat Gina Cole
Owner/Creator, Haven Sanctuary - Rev Mary Hawk
Co-Coordinator, Nashville Pagan Pride Day - Lucia Jameson
Co-Coordinator, Nashville Pagan Pride Day (https://www.nashvillepaganprideday.net) - Melissa Anderson
Aikenhall School
Circle of Ancient Sisters, Inc
Dynion Mwyn, The Association of Cymry Wiccae
Houses of Khemet - Jim “Raven” Stefanowicz
Founder & High Priest, South Street Circle (https://www.SouthStreetCircle.org) - Tamara von Forslun
Clan of Boskednan Church of the Old Religion Inc. Australia and US (https://clanofboskednan.org) - Eric Cooper
Forest Moon Grove (https://www.facebook.com/groups/146047182249413) - Starhawk
Author of The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess & The Fifth Sacred Thing (https://starhawk.org) - Toni Rotonda & Steven Intermill
Buckland Museum of Witchcraft (https://www.Bucklandmuseum.org) - Rev. Starr RavenHawk
HPs, WitchsFest USA - Nirav Parinama
Venusian Church - Amber K and Azrael Arynn K
Ardantane - Rev. Jeff Fager
Correllian Nativist Tradition of Wicca - Maeve Awen
Leader, Flame and Well Druid Grove (https://flameandwellgrove.org) - Diana Paxson
Fellowship of the Spiral Path - Rev James Sayers
Podcaster and founder, Earthweb Initiative - Pete Jennings
Retired President, The Pagan Federation (http://www.gippeswic.org) - Samina Oshun
Priestess, Desert Moon Circle, Church of All Worlds - Kerr Cuhulain
Past Preceptor General, Order of Paladins - Jack & Kim Ingersoll
Clergy, Sweetwood Temenos - Debi LeFaye
Academy of the Ancient Arts (https://www.academyoftheancientarts.org) - Francesca De Grandis
The Third Road Tradition (www.stardrenched.com) - H.E. Reverend Patrick McCollum
Executive Director, The Mccollum Foundation for Peace
President, Our Lady of the Wells, Church
Vice President Children of the Earth
https://www.Patrickmccollum.org - Raven Digitalis
Pagan author & Priest
https://www.ravendigitalis.com - Michael R. Gorman, MA
Founder, Sacramento Grove of the Oak - Michael York
Author of Matter Matters - Merlyn Hern
Founder, Witchfest (https://www.witchfest.net) Children of Artemis (https://www.witchcraft.org) - Rev. Dr. Ahriana Platten
HPS, Mountain Rose Grove (https://www.asoulfullworld.com) - Janet Farrar & Gavin Bone
Authors - Deborah Lipp
Author (https://www.deborahlipp.com) - Ruth Barrett
High Priestess and co-founding Elder, Temple of Diana, Inc. (https://www.templeofdiana.org) - Abigail Spinner McBride
The Vegas Vortex (https://www.vegasvortex.com) - Kadira Belynne
Director, Grey School of Wizardry (https://www.GreySchool.org) - Patricia Telesco
Author, 365 Goddess & The Kitchen Witch’s Cookbook - Gus diZerega
Author, Gardnerian High Priest and Elder (https://www.dizerega.com) - Holli S. Emore
MDiv, Cherry Hill Seminary (https://cherryhillseminary.org) - Max Dashu
Founder, Suppressed Histories Archives - Rev. Dr. Frodo Okulam
SisterSpirit (http://www.sisterspiritwomensharingspirituality.org) - Rt. Rev. Donald Valentine Studebaker
Gnostic Catholic Bishop - Hiereus Pyrokanthos
High Priest, Thiasos Olympikos - Harold Sanford Carter III
Founder, Witchcraft TV online - Wynne Rath
Witches and Pagans North of Dallas (https://www.facebook.com/WPNoD)
Temple of Wytchery (https://www.wytchery.org) - Brahn th’ Blessed
Board member, Nest Coordinator at Crows Nest (cybernest)
CAW Nest Facilitator Assoc Editor, Green Egg Magazine (https://greeneggmagazine.com)
Church of All Worlds (https://www.caw.org) - Tinnekke Bebout
Keybearer, Covenant of Hekate
Ordained Dianic High Priestess and Founder, Mystai of the Moon Dianic Path
High Priestess, Sanctuary and Temple of Hekate Einalian (https://TempleofHekateEinalian.org) - Rev. Jeff Fage
Coven of the Blue Moon
Blue Ridge Pagan Festival (www.facebook.com/groups/287246237630260) - Maria Shell
High Priestess, Temple of the Divine Spirit (https://templeofthedivinespirit.net) - Morgan Ravenwood
Druid, Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (https://druidry.org) - Mambo Chemen Limyè Jan’m da Ginen
Mambo Asogwe, Sosyete Kè Yo Fò - Tabitha Lusco
Children’s Minister, Awen Grove
Founding Associate Director, Greenwild Spiritual Fellowship (https://greenwildfellowship.org) - Rev. Pamela “Mela” Borawski
Hearthkeeper, Awen Grove
Founding Director, Greenwild Spiritual Fellowship (https://www.greenwildfellowship.org) - Jamie Lynn Denten
Battleborn Psychic medium Lady SilverWillowSage
Member of Nevada Society of Scottish clans, Member of Sons and Daughters of Erin, Event planner with Otherworldly Temptations - Willow Clemson
Sacred Spiral Pagan Church of Arizona (https://sites.google.com/site/sacredspiralpaganchurchofaz/home) - Rev. Barbara Thorngren
Owner/Workshop Builder/Land Steward, Avalon Healing Arts Barn Studio and Sanctuary - Melissa Bella Strix Keogh
Teacher, Priestess, Witch, Ordained Minister - Noël Sucese
Historian, PhD Candidate Loyola University Chicago
Just Us Ghouls Coven - Aleta Lawrence
Solitary Witch - Dr. Sandra Robbins PhD LPC
Eco therapist
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