The Pagan Agenda

Written as a companion piece to his essay on ritual and civic life, this piece lays out a concrete set of priorities Sam thinks the Pagan movement should organize around — institution-building, land relationship, and a religious infrastructure sturdy enough to outlast any one teacher or festival.

He is candid about the movement's growing pains: a culture built on individual revelation and small circles doesn't naturally produce seminaries, publishing houses, or multi-generational orders, yet Sam argues those are exactly the structures a religion needs to persist.

The essay reads today as an early blueprint for projects Sam went on to actually found — the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn and Concrescent Press among them — turning the agenda from argument into institution.

Originally published at samwebstermage.com →