My family’s history with Wicca, the neopagan legacy of historical European spiritual paths, began when my father took my mother to a bookstore in Manhattan, his favorite borough in New York City. While my father perused books on finance, my mother discovered the Wicca section. My father, a voracious reader, read the books and supported Wicca.

 

My interest in the Christian faith was initially motivated by Donald Trump who, for decades, kept the Revised Standard Version Bible his Presbyterian mother gave him on June 12, 1955, two days prior to his birthday. (While my mother’s side has a history with black Christianity, I don’t know much about those denominations, though I inadvertently sent a prayer request to a black church. I have requested that they remove the bulletins displaying the prayer request from the internet, as I do not want people thinking I support or identify with the church or its politics.) 

 

However, I still incorporate aspects of Wicca into my life. Maybe I could be called a Christian Wiccan.

 

While some Wiccans, including me, think that the Wiccan gods are archetypes, like the Jungian concept, I understand Wiccans who worship pagan gods and goddesses. I believe in the First Amendment. I am against witch hunts, both religious ones and political scams like the January 6 hearings. I believe that other religions have morals and you do not need to be a Christian or religious to be moral.

 

I think that Wiccan ceremonies can be incorporated into prayer to God. Christians include rites and secular aspects of holidays in their lives. Some Wiccan practices are like secular American practices that Christians participate in.

 

Some Christians believe in traducianism (including me - it is like the racehorse theory), while others don’t. Some prefer the King James Bible, while others, including me, prefer other versions, my favorite being the RSV. Some Christians can practice aspects of Wicca.