Category: Ethics
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Badger Cull
The natural world is fluffy only for warmth, and generally not far behind the fluff is a gob full of razor teeth and a healthy swipe-full of claw. “Nature red in tooth and claw” is the old saying and it’s everso true. Kill and be killed. As a pagan, apparently, I am supposed not merely…
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So… GM then.
I’ve an instinctive opposition to genetic modification, or GM. It’s always been there, and I’ve acknowledged it over the years by positively (but not obsessively) avoiding purchasing GMO material, even to the feed I give my chickens. And then, recently, there was a news story about a potential solution to ‘ash die-back’ whereby the genome…
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Driving the Druid to Distraction
In my paid employment, I have to drive places. Now, I can hear all the cries of “a Druid should walk, bicycle or at least use public transport”. But that’s not feasible in the work I do, and the work I do keeps the lights on – and probably the computer you’re reading this on,…
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Pragmatic Druidry
I’ve recently been working on the newly relaunched web site of The Druid Network, moving pages across from the old site to the new, refreshing where appropriate and culling likewise and finding areas where new inspiration would be useful. One area where I’m seeing a gap is in what I call Pragmatic Druidry, and I…
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Naming the bones
Why are the actual bones and remains of the ancestors important to both sides of the reburial debate? The controversy over the reburial of human remains continues with the legal battle over where King Richard III – recently discovered under a car park in Leicester – should be laid to rest. In the meantime, English…
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Capuchin Crypt
One of the places that intrigued me in Rome, and which I made an effort to see, was the Capuchin Crypt. The pictures I offer here are not mine, but are re-worked images taken from the internet. The Catholic Order that owns the crypt under the Santa Maria della Concezione does not permit photographers, and…
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Druidry and the Ancestors
Druidry and the Ancestors, by Nimue Brown As the regular reader (I know your name) will know, I picked this book up the other week at The Druid Network Conference. Nearly all books on Druidry seem to have covers showing trees, and while this one is no exception, I absolutely love the artwork that Nimue’s…
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Census 2011 – the Religion Question
So the results are available and already making news. Well, some of it is making news. In the spirit of Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics, let me lay out the actual figures for religion, taken from the ONS. For England and Wales, of course… sorry, the rest of the disunited kingdom, your voice is not…
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The Druid Network Conference 2012
And relax! The Druid Network 2012 Conference is over. And what a great Conference it was. There was laughter, there was tears, there were no-shows and impromptu stand-ins… and all through it I stayed mostly upright. Ok, breathe… there. This was our second Conference, after the first one in 2010 that went well despite all the…
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Kill the Cull, not the Badger.
Picture donated to the cause by the most wonderful Tom Brown. See his other stuff at http://copperage.deviantart.com More and more information now stands in the face of this nonsensical cull. www.teambadger.org http://www.tbfreeengland.uk.com http://news.sky.com/ http://www.lancashirebadgergroup.org.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/
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