Tag: TDN
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Thought for the Week – Yule
Well, another one writ, and with a small plug for the TDN and CC result… In the pagan year there is a kind of resting space between Samhain and Yule. From honouring memories of our ancestors at Samhain, we join in Remembrance of our honoured dead, and into a world itself seemingly dying. Leaves fall,…
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TDN Conference
Copied from http://druidnetwork.org/conference The first ever TDN Conference, entitled “Expressions of Druidry” was held on Saturday 20th November 2010 at the Bilberry Hill Centre, Lickey, in the English West Midlands. As one of the organisers I’d like to offer a few thoughts of my own, along comments from others who participated in the event. The idea for the conference was…
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Not just dippy, trippy, hippies…
Not that being a dippy, trippy, tree-hugging hippy is altogether a bad thing, but when described as such it does lower folks’ expectations and leads to one being taken less seriously than, say, your local Christian, Buddhist or Muslim, etc. From time to time, being kind of ‘out there’ as to my spiritual persuasion, I’ve…
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Thought for the Week – Summer Solstice
Thought for the Week – for Thursday 10th June “But being a Druid is just about rave parties at Stonehenge, wacky baccy and free sex, isn’t it?” I sigh, as the same old question comes from the mouth of an otherwise well educated and culturally tolerant work colleague. I sympathise with my Muslim friend, jokingly…
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Thought for the Week – Samhain
“Thought for the Day” – for Thursday 29th October And so once again the wheel of the year turns and we are at Samhain – or Halloween if you choose, full of ghosts and ghouls running from house to house in search of tooth decay… Samhain (the word derives from “summers end”) is the Pagan…
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Thought for the Week – Summer Solstice
I’ve recently been asked to write an occasional short (250 words) “Thought for the Week” for our local weekly newspaper “The Gazette” (15,000 circulation), and the first one will go out next week in time for the Summer Solstice. I’m putting my TFTW here in case it stimulates others to offer words of their own in their own…
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National ID Card and Register Consultation
Earlier today I attended a brief from the Home Office Minister Meg Hillier who was consulting on the forthcoming UK National ID Card and Register. I’m in no way a fan of surveillance and feel slightly queasy about ID Card, and I was invited as representative of The Druid Network, as a Faith Communities Consultee.
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