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CHS Accepting Scholarship Applications Now to Jan 3

Posted on December 26, 2013June 18, 2025

For Immediate Release: December 27, 2013

Contact: Holli Emore, CHS@cherryhillseminary.org

COLUMBIA, S.C – Cherry Hill Seminary is now accepting applications for Spring 2014 semester course scholarships.

Thanks to the generosity of donors who gave nearly $4,300 during a fall drive, the “Bow Tie Campaign,” Cherry Hill Seminary will award:

1 master’s class to each of 2 different students
1 certificate class to each of 2 different students
1 Rhizomes package of 5 classes to 1 student or group
(plus, 1 full Pagan Life Academy series to a previously-selected recipient.)

Applicants for a master’s or certificate class scholarship must be existing CHS students who have taken a class in the past 18 months. Applicants for the Rhizomes package may be new to CHS, and may be an individual, or a group, e.g., a CUUPS group or ADF grove. A Rhizomes package may be awarded to either an individual or to a group. If the group applies, then the same individual need not attend each of the 5 four-week classes. The Rhizomes course series will be staggered throughout 2014.

Academic Dean Wendy Griffin, Ph.D., noted that the Rhizomes group of four-week courses was designed specifically to strengthen Pagan communities and leadership skills. “This is a marvelous opportunity for a person or group who have been wishing they could try a CHS course,” said Griffin.

Deadline for applications is midnight (Pacific Time) on Friday, January 3, 2014. Notifications will go out by Friday, January 10, 2014.

Apply here. For more information about all CHS programs, visit Cherry Hill Seminary online.

CHS Announces Release of Pagan Life Academy for Incarcerated Pagans

Posted on October 15, 2013June 18, 2025

CHS Announces Release of Pagan Life Academy for Incarcerated Pagans

For Immediate Release: October 15, 2013

Contact: Holli Emore, 888-503-4131, CHS@cherryhillseminary.org

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Cherry Hill Seminary has just released its new Pagan Life Academy, a series of eight low-cost print lessons for incarcerated Pagans.

The Pagan Life Academy series is pan-Pagan, presenting values, ethics, stories and ritual elements that are common to various Pagan traditions. Each lesson uses elements common to nearly all modern Paganisms: holidays, the calling of directions, ritual practice, and mythology. Because inmates are incarcerated most often because they have made poor choices, our writer chose eight character traits, or virtues, and re-wrote stories from ancient cultures to emphasize these virtues. The ritual actions are based on the stories and include a commitment to continuing the development of a given virtue. Pagan Life Academy lessons are suitable for solitary practitioners, or for groups, and for use by volunteers and chaplains in prison systems.

“As America’s prisons become increasingly crowded they more nearly reflect the changing religious demographics of our country, which include growing numbers of Pagans, and SBNRs (‘spiritual but not religious’). The prison experience can be a cauldron of transformation for many; Pagan Life Academy is Cherry Hill Seminary’s offering to our incarcerated Pagans and those who serve them,” said Executive Director Holli Emore.

The following lessons may be ordered online at https://cherryhillseminary.org/students/degree-programs/pagan-life-academy-incarcerated-pagans/, or by sending a check or money order to Cherry Hill Seminary, P.O. Box 5405, Columbia, SC 29250.

Lesson	Item Cost
Samhain, Winter Nights, Halloween – October 31Persephone and the Pomegranate; truthfulness and integrity	$5
Yule, Midwinter, Winter Solstice – December 21 or 22The Devotion of Isis to Osiris; devotion and loyalty	$5
Imbolc, Disting, Candlemas – February 1The Commitment of Mulan; commitment and following through	$5
Ostara, Summer Finding, Spring Equinox – March 20 or 21The Land Spirits and the Maple Syrup; substance abuse, meaningful work, goal-setting	$5
Beltane, Mayday – May 1The Binding of Fenris; courage, sacrifice, responsibility	$5
Litha, Midsummer, Summer Solstice – June 21 or 22The Children of Hercules are Offered Compassion; empathy and compassion	$5
Lammas, Lughnasadh, Freyfraxi – August 1The Generosity of Baucis and Philemon; generosity and helping	$5
Mabon, Harvest, Fall Equinox – September 22 or 23Fionn and the Song of Fairie; self-control, risk, endurance, and honor	$5
Welcome and IntroductionYou will need one of these to go with the lessons – ritual instructions, how to use the stories and discussion guides, individual roles, altar setup, directions, correspondences	$3

For more information, visit Cherry Hill Seminary online (https://cherryhillseminary.org/students/degree-programs/pagan-life-academy-incarcerated-pagans/).

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