Inanna Arthen has been an SEF member since 2015. She identified as a Pagan in 1974 and worked with several Pagan organizations in the 1980s and 1990s, including the EarthSpirit Community, Covenant of the Goddess and Church of All Worlds. In 1998, she earned an M.Div degree from Harvard Divinity School, with concentrations in pastoral counseling, small church management and Paganism–her master’s thesis dealt with the legal and practical matters that would be involved in establishing a Pagan church in Massachusetts. She worked as a residential counselor and team leader in a battered women’s shelter for ten years, until she left in 2006 to start a small publishing company, By Light Unseen Media.<\/p>\n
Inanna has served as the part-time, openly Pagan minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Winchendon since 2013. Identifying as genderqueer and genderfluid, she completely re-wrote the UUA Welcoming Congregations curriculum and ran the training sessions for UUCW, which was recognized as a Welcoming Congregation by the UUA in 2017. She is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association (UUMA) and the part time administrator for the Unitarian Universalist Society for Community Ministry (UUSCM).<\/p>\n
Inanna lives on Lake Monomonac in Winchendon, MA with five rescued cats.<\/p>\n
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Inanna Arthen has been an SEF member since 2015. She identified as a Pagan in 1974 and worked with several Pagan organizations in the 1980s and 1990s, including the EarthSpirit Community, Covenant of the Goddess and Church of All Worlds. In 1998, she earned an M.Div degree from Harvard Divinity School, with concentrations in pastoral … Continue reading Inanna<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elderfaiths.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elderfaiths.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elderfaiths.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elderfaiths.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elderfaiths.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elderfaiths.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"https:\/\/elderfaiths.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elderfaiths.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elderfaiths.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elderfaiths.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}