A Priest Falls

I can't believe it. Someone I know fairly well from online correspondence and various articles he's written has been shafted. He's an Episcopal Priest, but also a Druid. (For those of you who don't know that much about Druidry, just take my word for it that it in NO WAY conflicts with true [i.e., non-Fundamentalist] Christianity.) He has been asked to step down from his position at the church.

This is just another modern-day Witch Hunt!

I'm also in seminary, but I'm of the Unitarian Universalist denomination, which is an extremely liberal path. There are many pagan ministers in the UUA -- some don't advertise the fact, others are fairly open about it. But the Episcopal Church is another matter.

What doesn't seem right is that it sounds like this person is denouncing Druidry in order to remain in his church. While I have no problem with that since I believe everyone has a right to whatever path to God they choose, it just seems strange that someone SO Druidic, so full of the Celtic Spirit and love of nature, would do that!

Well, I need to look into it a bit more. This story affects me, too. I firmly believe in Druidry and its compatibility with Christianity, and I know that education is all that would be required to fix this. Yeah, of course there will be those who are unwilling to learn, unwilling to listen, and unwilling to open their hearts in the way their own teacher, Jesus, told them to do.

I have a new Quest. I have to educate people about us Druids. I'm not going to hide behind the Cross OR the Flaming Chalice!

I wonder how a lecture on paganism or Druidism would go over at the seminary?....