{"id":1238,"date":"2009-10-26T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2009-10-26T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T22:37:00","slug":"colorado-pagans-and-news-media-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Pagans and News Media Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed a couple of instances in the past month where Colorado Pagans seem to be getting fairer coverage in the news. One was the item about the Pagan Student Alliance at the University of Colorado-Boulder.<\/a><\/p>\n

(But as a former university professor, I have seen clubs come and go. Only clubs with strong support from a department or a particular professor last more than a year or two, typically.)<\/p>\n

A Denver Post<\/i> story today describes the work of a hospice chaplai<\/a>n and contains this paragraph:<\/p>\n

Her patients come from all spiritual traditions and have included a Buddhist priest, a Druid high priest and a Sufi spiritual leader. But end-of-life spiritual care, she emphasizes, isn’t necessarily about religion.<\/i><\/p>\n

So the Druid is one of the exotic Others, but at least the Post<\/i> did not put “high priest” in quotation marks.<\/p>\n

And Tina Dowd sounds like a true priestess herself.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: <\/b>Here is one description of running a university Pagan students’ club<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed a couple of instances in the past month where Colorado Pagans seem to be getting fairer coverage in the news. One was the item about the Pagan Student Alliance at the University of Colorado-Boulder. (But as a former university professor, I have seen clubs come and go. 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