OCT. 11, 2004

WICCA
Wicca moves into the mainstream

STATE BY STATE
• The Witches' Voice is a neo-pagan network with state-by-state listings of neo-pagan and Wiccan groups, retailers and organizations.
• The Covenant of Unitarian Universalists (CUUPS) maintains a state-by-state list of chapters.

IN THE NORTHEAST
• The New York City Pagan Resource Guide lists pagan and Wiccan groups, organizations, covens, retailers and individuals in the Connecticut area.
• Jennifer Hunter is a "Jewitch," someone who combines the Judaism of her birth with her upbringing with Wicca. She is author of 21st Century Wicca: A Young Witch's Guide to Living the Magical Life (Citadel Press, 1997) and lives in Somerville, Mass. Contact jen@jenniferhunter.com.
• Liz Guerra is president of the Connecticut Wiccan and Pagan Network, a pagan community networking organization in the New Haven area. Contact jasmine@sevensages.com.

IN THE EAST
• The New York City Pagan Resource Guide lists pagan and Wiccan groups, organizations, covens, retailers and individuals in the New York and New Jersey area.
• Evan A. Leach is an associate professor of management at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., and co-author of Voices From the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States (University of South Carolina Press, 2003). Contact 610-436-2305, eleach@wcupa.edu.
• Leigh S. Shaffer is a professor of anthropology at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., and co-author of Voices From the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States (University of South Carolina Press, 2003). Contact 610-436-2248, lshaffer@wcupa.edu.
• Linda Hanley organized this year's Sixth Annual Rochester Pagan Pride Festival in Rochester, N.Y. Contact lhanley1@rochester.rr.com.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• Dr. Bron Taylor is a professor of environmental and Christian ethics at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He can discuss neo-pagans' focus on the environment, a focus of their worship that has brought them more into contact with non-pagan communities. Contact 352-392-1625, bron@religionandnature.com.
• Carl McColman is a neo-pagan practitioner, writer and teacher and the author of eight books about neo-paganism, including When Someone You Love is Wiccan: A Guide to Witchcraft and Paganism for Concerned Friends, Nervous Parents and Curious Co-workers (New Page Books, 2002). He lives and teaches in Atlanta. Contact 404-255-5207.
• Eternal Harvest Church of Wicca meets once a month in New Bern, N.C. Contact Spanish Moss or Thalia, 252-244-5870.
• Heather Morcroft is president of the Wiccan Religious Cooperative of Florida, a neo-pagan church in Orlando. Contact 407-262-3491 or 407-895-7439.
• Cathbodua Aideen is an elder and Arch Druid in the Emerald Sanctuary and is moderator of the South Carolina Pagan Parents, a Yahoo.com discussion group in Greenville, S.C. Contact thesanctuary@theemeraldsanctuary.org.
• Members of Earth Ways, a group of pagans meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Shenandoah Valley in Stephens City, Va., held their first Pagan Pride Day in September 2004. Contact through the church, 540-869-6965.

IN THE SOUTH
• Terry Riley is a high priest of the Southern Delta Church of Wicca in Brookland, Ark. It has a sister church in Memphis. He says one of the main obstacles to Wicca becoming mainstream is that much of the published material available is basically not true. He believes Wicca is not an ancient religion, but was established as a religion in the 1950s by Gerald Gardner. Contact 870-237-4300, Terry@childrenofthecircle.com.
• Scott Sumers is a member of Summerland Grove Pagan Church, an organization of covens and solitary practitioners in the Memphis, Tenn., area. Contact scribe@summerland.org.
• Willow Winter Wolf is coven high priestess of the Triple Moon Wiccan Grove near Chalmette, La. Her group recently began holding public rituals in the hope of educating the local non-pagan community about their practices. Contact willow_march02@yahoo.com.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Nikki Bado-Fralick is a professor of religious studies at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where she teaches a course on women and religion that includes neo-paganism. Contact 515-294-0054, nikkibf@iastate.edu.
• River and Joyce Higginbotham are co-authors of Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions (Llewellyn, 2002). They live in Missouri, Contact 314-428-2475, tigger@inlink.com riverjj@mindspring.com.
• The Rev. Karla Summers is a second-degree high priestess in Circle of Friends Shrine, a Correllian-based group of Wiccans in Box Elder, S.D. She says many Wiccans are still in hiding because many people mistakenly believe that Wicca is a form of Satanism. Contact 605-923-9007, circle_of_friends1@excite.com.
• Janet Callahan heads the Michigan Spiral Scouts Wolverine Tribe in Troy, Mich. Contact volunteers@spiralscouts.org.
• Drake Spaeth is director of the Military Pagan Network and the first pagan candidate for U.S. military chaplaincy. He lives in Evanston, Ill.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Sgt. Luke Dahn is the lay leader of Lackland Wiccan/Pagan Religious Education, a neo-pagan group at Lackland Air Force Base outside San Antonio, Texas. Contact 210-691-9492 or 210-292-4048, osiris14@texas.net.
• Kalista Thompson leads The Mystic Grove, a neo-pagan circle at Sheppard Air Force Base outside Wichita Falls, Texas. Contact 940-642-6855, rhiannon8199@yahoo.com.
• Pamela Yarborough is an administrator at Spiral Academy, an alternative, independent private school in Colorado Springs, Colo., that serves homeschoolers who seek non-Christian-based curricula. Contact 719-660-5703, pamelayarb@yahoo.com.
• Elise Coleman is priestess and guide of Guardians of the Heart and helped organize the first Pagan Pride Day in Tulsa, Okla., in September 2004. Contact 918-850-1838, elise@guardiansoftheheart.org.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Sarah Pike is an associate professor of religious studies at California State University, Chico, and author of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community (University of California Press, 2001). Contact 530-898-5661, spike@csuchico.edu.
• Z. Budapest is founder of the Susan B. Anthony Witches Coven #1, a feminist coven, and author of several books on Wiccan spirituality, including Grandmother Moon (HarperSanFrancisco, 1991). She lives and teaches in Oakland, Calif. She prefers to be contacted by email through her web site, or call 510-893-3097.
• Sara Reeder describes herself as "a Faery priestess" and has written about raising a son within neo-paganism. She lives in Northern California with her family. Contact mercuria@tecolote.cnchost.com.