Rev. Selena Fox

Rev. Selena Fox (she/her) is Senior Minister of Circle Sanctuary and among the founders of Pagan Spirit Gathering. Selena is a teacher, ritualist, writer, chant-crafter, podcaster, chaplaincy administrator, interfaith networker, life passages guide, and spiritual psychotherapist. Selena has a MS in counseling and does consultations, readings, and counseling by zoom and telephone with clients of many paths and places. Selena hosts a monthly podcast, Circle of Nature, and presents workshops and rituals via in person and virtual gatherings across the USA and internationally. She is author of Goddess Communion and other works, and also shares some of her rituals, meditations, chants, photos, and other creations through social media. Selena is a Pagan civil rights and religious freedom activist and is Executive Director of Lady Liberty League. Selena is an environmentalist and founder of Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve and its Circle Cemetery, a national Pagan burying ground and one of the first Green cemeteries in North America. Selena has been active in interfaith and social justice endeavors since the 1960s and serves on the national Faith Advisory Council of Americans United for Separation of Church and on the Board of Wisconsin Faith Voices of Justice. Selena is founder of the Circle Craft tradition which blends together ancient and contemporary Pagan folkways, multicultural Animism, HedgeWitchery, and Nature Spirituality.

Rev. Dr. Dennis Carpenter 

Dennis Carpenter, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Circle Sanctuary Minister. His current interests include Ecopsychology, Nature Spirituality, Pilates, Yoga, Cardio Interval Training, and Mindfulness Meditation. He presents workshops about the health and wellness benefits of experiences in Nature, exercise, and mindfulness; and the potential of such experiences to strengthen ecological awareness and activism. He guides Mindful Nature Walks at Circle Sanctuary to help folks connect more deeply with Nature.

Rev. Jake

Rev. Jake (they/them) holds an MDiv in Urban Ministry and has provided spiritual care and leadership for over 30 years. Their work also includes developing vanguard harm reduction services for people experiencing homelessness and/or involved in sex trading, managing a residential treatment unit, chaplaincy in a psychiatric hospital, providing training on a wide array of cultural competency and evidence-based practice topics, and direct public action on a wide range of justice issues. They are an earnest student of Nonviolent Communication, a Certified Naturalist, and an avid devotee of vegan nutritional and homeopathic / naturopathic healing. They founded and co-coordinate the Social Justice Center, the Magenta Luncheon, and several other programs at PSG, and serve on the MTP Coordinating team.

Rev. Chip Brown

Rev. Chip Brown is a retired Attorney, Historian/Archeologist - Historic Preservationist, and now an off-grid, sustainable farmstead farmer. Throughout his career, Chip worked for the State of Wisconsin and with the Wisconsin resident Tribes and Nations to protect and preserve cultural resources, sacred sites, and human burial sites. He is working with a Native American organization to develop Food Sovereignty programs, policies and laws for Tribal members, on-reservation, supporting traditional foods, farming and ranching opportunities: to improve the health of the people and the land; to bolster necessary skills to produce local and traditional food; and to create and expand access to markets to distribute this food to the people. He and his spouse are building the first State-permitted tire-bale constructed, active and passive solar, sustainable, off-grid home in their state; and they recently obtained approval for the first State-permitted vermiculture septic system for their home. They live on their land, growing food, raising chickens, collecting and hauling water for all personal and agricultural use. They hope that their efforts may be a model for folks to live a carbon-neutral lifestyle while supporting themselves and assisting their families, communities, tribes - much needed in this time of climate change. Chip plans to institute a spiritual center for transformative growth on this land in the near future. He incorporates the traditional beliefs and practices from his Lenape/Delaware, Cherokee and Miꞌkmaq Native American Ancestors, in addition to his British Isles Celtic, Scandinavian, Mediterranean and Western European/East Asian Ancestors into his personal spiritual practices. Chip considers himself Pagan; since 1982 his spiritual “home” is with the Circle Sanctuary Pagan Community of Wisconsin. He continues to work with and for Circle Sanctuary in an advisory and administrative capacity, and has done so for several decades.

Lisa Chavez 

Lisa Chavez: I grew up in Davenport, Iowa and currently live 30 miles west of Chicago. My father’s family came to the US from Mexico in the 1920s and I was raised Catholic and attended Catholic grade school, high school and college. My mother’s family were Southern Methodists.
I stopped attending mass when I moved to Chicago after college, labeled myself an atheist and started reading self-help books and working with a therapist who encouraged me to join a 12-step program for Adult Children of Alcoholics. It was at an ACOA retreat in 1998 that I met my first Pagan who invited me to a Beltane ritual at the Beverly Unitarian Church in Chicago. That ritual and the people I met there changed my life.
I was drawn to apply to the Circle MTP because Circle is my spiritual community and I want to be of service in a deeper way. I have been part of the Circle community for over 18 years. I seek a greater role in helping preserve the legacy of Circle Sanctuary and the safe spaces it creates for its members to worship, celebrate and gather to share information and experiences that facilitate their healing and spiritual growth.

Steven Curtain

Steven Curtin was born in 1960 and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and on a farm in Blue Mounds a few miles from the Circle Sanctuary grounds. His father Philip Curtin was a professor of African History and taught at UW for twenty years, and because of this Steven spent a year in South Africa when he was two years old, a year in Senegal when he was five and a year in Paris and London when he was nine. When he was seventeen he spent a summer in India with the Experiment and International Living, bought a Sitar, and had an experience at the Ellora-Ajanta Buddhist caves that led to a lifelong Zen Buddhist practice. He started playing trumpet in middle school, switching to guitar then bass in high school, and continues to play bass and many other stringed instruments to this day. He has been playing djembe and later doudhran and other percussion instruments since the early 2000s. Since 2020 he has been studying and playing the East African Mbira, and has recently restarted learning the Didgeridoo. In high school he also became fascinated with electronic music and synthesizers and built his first synthesizer in his junior and senior years, and has continued to build and modify electronic instruments. His first Pagan experiences were growing up on the farm, and he first discovered he was a Pagan when he saw a talk by the late Margot Adler, found Pagan groups to work with when he moved to Michigan, and has observed every Sabbat since attending a Yule ritual at a UU church in Farmington MI in 2003. He has worked with several CUUPS groups and for the past several years has been working with Trillium Reclaiming, the Detroit area Reclaiming group and the tradition started by Starhawk.

Rev. Minerva Duggan

Rev. Minerva (she/her) is the Admissions Coordinator, Practicum Coordinator, and Portfolio Coordinator for Circle Sanctuary’s Ministry Training Program (MTP). She was ordained in 2019 after completing the MTP herself. She teaches, occasionally, and serves as a mentor when called upon to do so. She is dedicated to the continual improvement of the program and to the success of MTP Students.
Minerva is also the Assistant Director Circle’s Lady Liberty League. LLL is a group of volunteers who assist Pagans in handling situations when their constitutional right to practice their faith has been violated. Minerva has been working with LLL for nine years.
In addition to the above, Rev. Minerva serves the Circle community in other ways. She has coordinated events at Circle. She was an area (gate) coordinator at the Pagan Spirit Gathering for 12 years. She was a volunteer team lead for cemetery work at Circle’s green cemetery. Rev. Minerva participates in interfaith work offering a Pagan voice to others at faith-based events.
Minerva has a strong sense of social responsibility. In addition to being dedicated to the Circle community, she is involved in public service to her city. She served in her city council for five years and Minerva just finished four years as mayor of the municipality. Rev. Minerva retired from Federal service in 2012 and from her private law practice years before that. She has earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Political Science; a Master’s of Global Leadership and Organizational Development; and a Juris Doctor. Spiritually, Minerva identifies as a Threshold Witch who practices in the liminal times and spaces of life.

Rev. Eldritch

Rev. Eldritch (he/him) is a minister with Circle Sanctuary and lives near Washington, DC. Eldritch is also a Radical Faerie, a Priestx of Stone Circle Wicca and coordinator of the LGBTQ Interfaith group "Center Faith.” Eldritch has 30 years of experience in event planning, public relations, and community organizing in LGBTQ and Pagan communities. In his professional life he holds a masters degree that includes teaching the dynamics of group identity, sociolinguistics, and cross-cultural relations. He retired from program management work in the federal government after three decades at the Temple of Minerva (The Library of Congress). Eldritch writes music, liturgy and rituals that inspire community cohesion

Ash Glasse

Ash Glasse (they/them) is a Heathen practitioner based in Western Maryland. They are the Gothar (spiritual leader) of Elk Ridge Kindred; an inclusive Heathen group based in Frederick, Maryland. Ash is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick, where they are an active CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans) member, leader, and teacher. They also teach at many pagan events on the East Coast. Ash’s primary focus in Heathenry is to incorporate the practice into daily life. They try to break down the walls between the spiritual and the mundane, while keeping in touch with Heathenry’s historical roots. They consider their practice a revival more than a reconstruction. Ash also writes and performs with Pagan Folk Band, Kindred Crow and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of The Troth, a worldwide inclusive Heathenry organization.

Irene Glasse

Irene Glasse (she/they) is a Heathen witch based in Western Maryland. She is a longtime teacher of witchcraft, meditation, and magic in the mid-Atlantic. She is the co-author of the forthcoming "Foundations of Witchcraft: A Blackfeather Mystery School Training Manual" from Crossed Crow Books, the co-author of "Blackfeather Mystery School: The Magpie Training" (Dragon Alchemy, 2022), a contributing writer to Llewellyn's Witch's Sun Sign Series and to the 2024 - 2026 Sabbats Almanacs (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2023 - 2025), and a blogger and columnist. She is a Commissioned Lay Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick and is the lead organizer of the Frederick Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (Frederick CUUPS), offering events, rituals, classes and workshops to a large, vibrant community.

Levi Gutkaes

Levi Gutkaes grew up in Rural Minnesota and currently lives in the Twin Cities MN. Levi was raised eclectically Pagan and currently practices similarly. Levi was drawn to apply to Circle’s MTP to increase his skills of community building, religious education and consoling, and to deepen my own spiritual beliefs.

Jasmine

Jasmine grew up in a tiny town called Wooldridge (less than 100) in Central Missouri near the Missouri River. Jasmine currently lives in St. Louis. Jasmine attended an old-fashioned (one room at the foot of the hill from my house) Baptist church until she was a teen, then she stopped. Jasmine stumbled into Starhawk’s work via feminism in the late 80s and found my path. Jasmine practices eclectic witchcraft - she is a heretic kitchen witch. Professionally, Jasmine works in the user experience world and use a lot of the same techniques (with different names) in my daily life. I was called to be a part of the Circle MTP because I want to find ways to heal my community and my world using creativity, collaboration, connection, music and movement. I want to formalize some of my training. I also crave community deep in my bones and look forward to deepening those connections.

Nancy Melito

Nancy Melito (she/hers) is studying to become an ordained minister in Circle Sanctuary's Ministry Program, and a longtime Pagan with over 40 years of experience of what she calls "pagan evangelism," inviting others to experience the healing that begins with adopting a new perspective on religion, one that embraces diversity and individual conscience. Currently she honors multiple deities from different pantheons and leads the Pagan subgroup of her local UU church.

Rev. Bo 

Rev. Bo is a longtime member of the PSG community and an ordained minister of Circle Sanctuary. Over his years working with the Pagan community at PSG, he has played key roles in the Sacred Hunt experience and in the creation of numerous workshops, rituals and rites of passage for youth. As a ritualist, he enjoys helping create dramatic rites that invite participants to connect with the spirit of magick and experience something truly sacred together. His approach to ritual design seeks to move beyond routine forms and explore ways of making ritual more meaningful and alive for those who take part. In recent years, he has also worked with nonprofit organizations outside the Pagan community, offering his ministerial skills in service to others as a form of modern missionary work.

Rev. Casey Pope

Casey Pope (she/her) is a Circle Sanctuary Minister and Licensed Professional Counselor (CO) with a background in neuroscience and trauma-informed care. She is a lifelong Pagan, Unitarian Universalist, Reiki Master, and ordained Cherag and Shaikh in the Sufi tradition, where spiritual leadership is understood as tending and kindling light in the world and in others.
Casey brings this integrative perspective into her work as a counselor and spiritual mentor across traditions, emphasizing collaborative care, humility, and inner alignment. She serves as Circle Sanctuary’s Ethics Officer and is an advisor to Lady Liberty League, Circle’s religious rights advocacy organization. At this year’s Pagan Spirit Gathering, she is a coordinator of Psyche’s Grotto, supporting emotional and spiritual well-being within the community.
Her work bridges psychology, ethics, mysticism, and embodied spirituality, offering leaders practical tools for serving with clarity, compassion, and shared responsibility.

Rev.  Sharon Stewart 

Rev. Sharon Stewart (she/her) is a Circle Sanctuary Minister with a passion for educating people on their End-of-Life Options. She is a long-time Certified Death Midwife and Hospice Volunteer, a Certified End-of-Life Practitioner, NODA (No One Dies Alone) trained, a Green Burial and Home Funeral Advocate, member of the National Home Funeral Alliance, as well as a Reiki Master Teacher. She also serves on Circle Sanctuary’s Green Cemetery Board. Sharon has worked long and hard to normalize death, by serving as an advocate for countless families to allow for the most beautiful death as possible for their loved ones and to foster healing for those who remain. She also works with families to create the most touching rituals, vigils, home funerals, and funeral services.

Psyche North Torok 

Psyche North Torok (Psyche) grew up in rural northeast Ohio, but lived in Columbus (Ohio) more than half her life. Psyche was raised Roman Catholic, but has been practicing Wicca since 1983. Psyche loves words and word play, and she especially enjoys writing ritual, chants, and liturgy. Psyce was drawn to apply to Circle’s ministry program to boost her ability to give back to the Pagan community, and to grow spiritually in a whole new way.
On a personal level, I enjoy cooking and baking, being out in the woods, writing poetry, doing genealogical research, and learning about archeology, mythology, animal behavior, linguistics, and more.