Can you be a Druid and an Episcopalian?
The controversy over “Pagan” elements on an official Episcopal Church Web site and the husband-and-wife clergy connected with them continues to bubble. Christianity Today’s blog has their bishop’s statement: the situation is “extremely serious,” but there is no rush to the stake, metaphorically speaking. Conservative Anglican bloggers continue to howl for blood. And howl and howl and howl. Notice how they blame the man more than the woman; we know that women are naturally sinful and led astray by the Devil, right?
I suspect that the Revs. Glyn Ruppe-Melnyk (Glispa) and William Melnyk (Oakwyse) are caught up in the Victorian idea of a special “Celtic Christianity,” more place-centered and mystical than the Church of England, yet not tainted with Roman Catholicism.