Circle Sanctuary's Purpose and Work

• Promote dialogue, cooperation, and mutually beneficial networking among individuals, groups, and organizations of a wide range of Pagan denominations and paths through Circle Network.
• Provide Pagan individual and group contacts through publications, correspondence, and telephone.
• Publish a quarterly Pagan religious journal, Circle Magazine, and other periodicals.
• Maintain Circle Sanctuary land, a Pagan religious center and Nature preserve.
• Promote the creation and sharing of Pagan rituals, meditations, music, images, and other sacred art forms.
• Provide Pagan ministerial services including counseling, spiritual healing prayer circles, and psychotherapy, plus conduct worship services as well as weddings, child blessings, funerals, house blessings, and other rites of passages.
• Sponsor the international Pagan Spirit Gathering in June and other religious festivals throughout the year.
• Sponsor Pagan religious educational activities, including workshops, talks, leadership training, and youth programs.
• Publish and distributing Pagan religious books, tapes, and other resources for spiritual development and practice.
• Engage in Pagan religious freedom activist work through the Lady Liberty League.
• Promote understanding and tolerance in mainstream society regarding Paganism through public education and informational media work.
• Engage in academically sound and publishable research as well as assist professors and other researchers at colleges and universities with their Pagan studies research in a variety of disciplines, including psychology, religious studies, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, history, literature, arts, environmental science, and other fields.
• Facilitate academic collaboration and networking through coordination of the Pagan Academic Network, and sponsor the Nature Religions Scholars Network within the American Academy of Religion.
• Engage in historic preservation activities, including maintaining paleo-Indian sites.
• Engage in environmental preservation activities, including prairie restoration, songbird repopulation, wetland protection, and forest management.
• Engage in charity projects and community services, including crisis referrals and food and clothing drives for the homeless and indigent.
• Participate in interfaith dialogue and collaboration, including helping to sponsor conferences such as the Parliament of the World's Religions.
• Engage in international and multicultural exchange and cooperation for greater planetary peace and wellness.