Tag: Pagan
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That census question resolved.
Following on from my whitterings the other day about the religioius question (the national identity question being an easy selection), I wrote this for The Druid Network the other day: The 2021 Census The 2021 Census takes place in England and Wales on Sunday 21st March, managed by the Office of National Statistics. (The Census…
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Druid Camp: 5 weeks to go!
I felt the need to express my gratitude, delight and overwhelming love for all the folk who’ve stepped up to the challenge of Druid Camp this year. I’m just doing some additions to the profiles pages here http://www.druidcamp.org.uk/category/2018blog/ and it’s a delight to see old and new friends preparing for a fabulous camp. Druid Camp – heh,…
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Now we are five…
Spring equinox returns, as it invariably does, and I take my customary stroll around the village. Nothing changes, and in the distance I can hear the limestone quarry as it expands toward us. Nothing changes, and the newest of the unsustainable new housing estates is pouring more concrete onto the green fields. Nothing changes, and…
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Imbolc at Clearwell Caves
Nipped over to the Forest of Dean today, to Clearwell Caves, for the annual Imbolc Rite of the Cotswold Pagan Society. It might seem odd to dive under the ground for a ceremony that honours the emerging light of the new year, and the mother goddess Brigid, reknown for being the keeper of the flame.…
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Currently Reading – Pagan Religions by Kerr Cuhulain
Currently Reading – Pagan Religions : A Handbook for Diversity training by Kerr Cuhulain. Was given this as a review copy, and a review will eventually appear. 🙂
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Reblogging: An open letter to Christina Odone
It’s not often I reblog someone else’s words, but this open letter from Jonathan Woolley at the Barefoot Anthropology site said just what I wanted to say – but said it so much better than I would have. The other day Ms Odone, a journo writing in the Telegraph, spewed a mighty pile of foetid inaccurate vitriol on the…
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Currently Reading – Horns of Power: Manifestations of the Horned God (compilation)
Horns of Power: Manifestations of the Horned God Grabbed onto by my tablet’s Kindle app because my good buddy Cat Treadwell noticed it was a one-day-only freebie on Amazon. Nevertheless, there’re a few good articles in there, and it draws interesting attention to the fact that so many who speak of the horned god actually…
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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.…
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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…
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