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Inanna Arthen, M.Div, has been a practicing eclectic Pagan since the 1970s and an initiated Witch since 1984. Her extensive background in spiritual and social service includes ten years with the Boston-based EarthSpirit Community and ten years as a residential counselor and Team Leader in a domestic violence shelter, where she received training and certification in crisis counseling, mental health and substance abuse issues. She earned her Masters of Divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School in 1998, writing her Masters Thesis on the legal and practical challenges of founding an independent Pagan church. Raised in the Unitarian Universalist church, Inanna began preaching in UU churches as a guest speaker in 1994 and served on the Ministry Team for the First Parish UU of Ashby, MA. She has been serving as minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Winchendon since May, 2013.