Cherry Hill Seminary Names Two New Department Chairs
COLUMBIA, SC — Cherry Hill Seminary is pleased to announce two new academic appointments. Valentine McKay-Riddell, Ph.D., is the new chair of Pagan Community Education, and David Oringderff, Ph.D., is the new chair of the Department of Pagan Pastoral Counseling. A long-time professor for the department, Oringderff is well known for his role in the…Continue reading→
Cherry Hill Seminary Supports Patrick McCollum
COLUMBIA, SC — Cherry Hill Seminary denounces an assertion that Christianity is the only faith protected by the U.S. Constitution, made in a friend of the court (amicus) brief filed this week in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The brief is part of a years-long struggle by the Seminary Director of Chaplaincy, Rev. Patrick…Continue reading→
M. Macha NightMare to realign duties with Cherry Hill Seminary
Columbia, S.C. – M. Macha NightMare, a longtime teacher and administrator at Cherry Hill Seminary, will resign as Chair of the Public Ministry department and take a position on the Board of Directors, effective Oct. 31. Nightmare in 2002 designed and taught the online course, “Call of the Dark Mother: Working with Death and Dying.”…Continue reading→
Cherry Hill Seminary To Grant Master’s Degrees
COLUMBIA, SC — Cherry Hill Seminary is pleased to announce that the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education has notified the school of the religious exemption which allows the Seminary to grant master’s degrees. Beginning in September 2009 Cherry Hill Seminary will offer the following Master’s degrees. “As Paganism becomes an increasingly recognized and influential…Continue reading→
Remembering September 11
Ten years ago… Cherry Hill Seminary was a fledgling online presence, no less pained by the violence of September 11, 2011, than our sisters and brothers in the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, non-religious, and other religious communities across the country, around the world. Ten years later, our faculty and students reflect on the meaning they draw…Continue reading→
Eminent Scholar Named Academic Dean of Cherry Hill Seminary
COLUMBIA, SC — Cherry Hill Seminary announces the appointment of Wendy Griffin, Ph.D., as its new Academic Dean, effective January 1, 2011. “I am thrilled, simply thrilled, that Wendy is coming aboard as our new Academic Dean! I cannot think of a better person to lead CHS towards accreditation,” said Aline O’Brien, Chair of the…Continue reading→
Cherry Hill Seminary Honors Judy Harrow by Library Naming
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 16, 2009 Contact: Holli Emore (888) 503-4131 chs@cherryhillseminary.org Cherry Hill Seminary Honors Judy Harrow by Library Naming Columbia, S.C. – The Board of Directors of Cherry Hill Seminary has approved the naming of its online library, the Judy Harrow Library & Information Center. Harrow, recently retired as Chair of the Pastoral…Continue reading→
