Pagan/Christian clergy

Christianity Today’s blog continues to be vexed by Pagan ritual in the Episcopal Church.

With Matt Drudge-like glee, the blog notes that the two married Episcopal clergy involved are also contemporary Pagan Druids. (Let’s capitalize Pagan, please, Mr. Olsen.) Their Druid group is here.

I have seen people hold clerical positions in Christian denominations and Wiccan groups as well. Back in 1996, the fourth of Llewellyn’s Witchcraft Today anthologies, which I edited, carried an article by a woman who is both Wiccan and a minister in the United Methodist Church. So is her husband: they are co-pastors of a UMC church.

From a polytheistic perspective, it all makes sense. From a cultural perspective, it is pretty risky, hence her pseudonym–although at least some of the UMC congregation knew of their dual roles.

UPDATE: Conservative Episcopalians are in full cry, as demonstrated here and here (note the comments).