{"id":13085,"date":"2022-10-01T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13085"},"modified":"2022-09-30T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T19:34:59","slug":"holli-emore-interviewed-about-pagan-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13085","title":{"rendered":"Holli Emore Interviewed about Pagan ‘Ministry’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Holli S. Emore, Cherry Hill Seminary<\/p><\/div>\n

What is the difference between priest\/essing\u00a0 and ministry? What does a Pagan “minister” do?<\/p>\n

Holli Emore serves as executive director of Cherry Hill Seminary (since 2008).<\/a> Cherry Hill offers a variety of programs that help Pagans become not only more effective group leaders and also qualifies them to work with anyone in crisis or transformation , where officially a cap-P Pagan or not. In other words, to minister, in such settings as hospitals, natural disasters, schools, and prisons as well as day-to-day life.<\/p>\n

She was recently interviewed by podcaster Robin Douglas for his Religion Off the Beaten Track.<\/em> (Amazon<\/a> link \u2014 Apple<\/a> link \u2014 Spotify<\/a> link \u2014 Twitter<\/a> link \u2014 and there are others.)<\/p>\n

Listen for a lucid 35-minute explanation of just what ministry is in a Pagan context.<\/p>\n

Holli has a book out on the subject too, Constellated Ministry: A Guide for Those Serving Today’s Pagans<\/em>. (Amazon link<\/a>. Publisher’s link<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the difference between priest\/essing\u00a0 and ministry? What does a Pagan “minister” do? Holli Emore serves as executive director of Cherry Hill Seminary (since 2008). Cherry Hill offers a variety of programs that help Pagans become not only more effective group leaders and also qualifies them to work with anyone in crisis or transformation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,5],"class_list":["post-13085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-3p3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13844,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13844","url_meta":{"origin":13085,"position":0},"title":"I Will Be Interviewed for the Cherry Hill Series. 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