Paying the Clergy

I'm spending more time on the internet of 10 years ago, replacing my social media browsing time with digging into old pagan blogs - so many of them, gems. Whenever I come across a good article, I save it under a topic & I'll put up that webpage on my site when I'm ready.

I've got together a little cluster of blog posts on Should We Pay Our Clergy, with a whole range of perspectives, so I'm going to share those now - and under the cut, some of my own thoughts on this (tl;dr no we shouldn't)

Debates around Pagan Clergy

• Shauna Aura Knight: How do we pay for all this? Memberships, Tithing, and Pagans - probaby the best overview on this topic, & she also has a series on Fundraising looking at practicalities.



• Quaker Pagan: A Cup of Coffee and a Bagel with Christopher Penczak
  
  
• Codex Astarte: Monetize Everything!



• Gleewood: Charging for Training



• Hardscrabble Creek: The Dangers in being 'Ministerial'



• Thorn Coyle Big Fish in a Small Pond



• John Beckett: Paying Pagan Clergy - an Organic Approach



• David Oliver Kling: Is it Noble to pay your cleric? An exploration of full-time paid clergy.



• 'A Bad Case of Methodist Envy: Copying Christian models of clergy is a Pagan dead end'- John Michael Greer in Witches & Pagans #28 which unfortunately doesn't seem to be around online; does anyone have this magazine? I'm going to write to him and see if I can put this essay back online.



• Quaker Pagan: Toward a Pagan Commons? A Conversation



• Fritz: Rant: Community Support, Does it Exist?



• Isaac Bonewits: Freedom of Information and Supporting Pagan Creators



• Drew Jacob: “Temple Without a Song: a Report to the Community”


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Me posting: witchcraft organisations need to be true communities - they need to be built around friendships, they need to be families, networks of care, people who treat each other well and like spending time together

Me ignoring my inbox, ignoring my reading page, ignoring my discord: what is 'emotional availability...?'

[cont] Doreen Valiente: Witch

Another thing that really stood out to me is that Valiente never drove, and so throughout her biography the author is stressing how many trains and busses and then a long walk she had to take to get to monthly rituals. And I find that very heartening