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Samuel Wagar

About Samuel Wagar

I'm a Wiccan Priest (since 1985), chaplain at University of Alberta (since 2014), doctoral candidate in Ministry/theology at St. Stephen's College. Author of "I Know Know Where the Bodies are Buried: A Memoir, 1956-2011" (Obscure Pagan Press / Createspace, 2014) "Growing Wiccan Temples and Leaders: Temple Organization and Leadership Development in a Mission-Centred Wiccan Movement" (Obscure Pagan Press / Createspace 2012) "The Uses of Ecstasy: Ritual and Practical Mysticism in Wicca" (Obscure Pagan Press / Createspace 2012) "Creating Lore, Writing Ritual" (Obscure Pagan Press / Createspace 2012) Edited and provided an introduction and recommended reading appendix to "Adelphon Kruptos - the Secret Work of the Knights of Labor 1886 " (Washington DC: Westphalia Press, 2016) Compiled and wrote seven editions of a "Directory to Canadian Pagan Resources" , and edited "A Pagan Teen Survival Guide" (Obscure Pagan Press 1998). I have sixteen academic publications in theology, sociology of religion and Wicca. I'm the father of two adult sons and a mead-maker. I have a drum but rarely play it, love dancing naked around the fire at Pagan events. I've been reading Tarot for forty years.

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Mission and Pride

Which of the hurts and pains in the world are you called... read more

Ritual is a Kind of Doing

Ritual is practice, not theory, and not dogma. But consistent and coherent... read more

Getting Organized

For activities in the Pagan communities to happen, someone must organize them.... read more

Ritual is a Way of Making Meaning

"It is not the experience of the sacred that makes us spiritual,... read more

An Experience of Ministry

Ministry is a spiritually grounded and caring engagement with other people, which... read more

Notes on Ritual Theory for the Wiccan Priest/ess

“Ritual is a means of performing the way things ought to be... read more

Making A Temple To Last (and grow)

When I started along on the Wiccan path 36 years ago, there... read more

Books, References, Sources for Lore

Although the ideas are simple it should be difficult to join a... read more

Coming to Belong Here

May we go forward as the conscious voice, eyes and hands of... read more

Creating One’s Own Body of Lore

I believe that we all have a general sense of what is... read more

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