Tag: bideford

• Power of Prayer

  Well you heard it here first, and I’m not always proved right. Eric (I’m in a bit of a) Pickles has played his trump card in response to the banning – or more accurately, the declaring unlawful – of prayers during Council meetings. Pretty close to what I said a week ago in my blog post. […]

  bish

  18 Feb 2012

  Ethics, human rights, parish council, rant

  bideford, competence, council, Druid, localism, Pagan, parish, prayer, religion, toleration, vicar, worship

• Prayers

  I was obviously interested to read today that a town council has been found to have exceeded its statutory powers by putting prayers on the agenda of the full meetings of the council. The case has gone right up to the High Court and there may yet be an appeal, but substantially it has been […]

  bish

  10 Feb 2012

  parish council, spirituality

  bideford, council, Druid, localism, Pagan, parish, prayer