{"id":1295,"date":"2010-01-27T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2010-01-27T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T22:25:00","slug":"nature-religion-at-the-air-force-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"Nature Religion at the Air Force Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Air Force Academy chapel will add a worship area for followers of Earth-centered religions <\/a>during a dedication ceremony scheduled to be held at the circle March 10.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gus diZerega notes it too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Considering some of the previous church-and-state issues at the academy<\/a>, this is major news.<\/p>\n

Hmm. I might be able to work that into a talk that I might possibly be giving later that month in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Air Force Academy chapel will add a worship area for followers of Earth-centered religions during a dedication ceremony scheduled to be held at the circle March 10. Gus diZerega notes it too. Considering some of the previous church-and-state issues at the academy, this is major news. Hmm. I might be able to work that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[10,49,5],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-military","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-kT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1307,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1307","url_meta":{"origin":1295,"position":0},"title":"Air Force Academy "Turns Back Time"","author":"Chas S. 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For the first time since a rancher named Tom Bell started the magazine in Lander, Wyoming in 1970, HCN has jumped on the bandwagon of anti-Wiccan snark. In a blog post\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4551,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4551","url_meta":{"origin":1295,"position":2},"title":"Stone Circles: Not Just for Neolithic People","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Andy Burnham, who runs the Megalithic Portal Web site and society in Surrey, England, has recorded 253 monolithic circles built in recent decades. And 'there must be many more in private gardens that we don\u2019t know about,' he wrote in an e-mail.\" The New York Times profiles a Vermont man\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Druids\"","block_context":{"text":"Druids","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=druids"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6122,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6122","url_meta":{"origin":1295,"position":3},"title":"Someone Should Burn for This","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Seen at the booth of a large, evangelically oriented Christian publisher at the American Academy of Religion\u2013Society of Biblical Literature joint annual meeting. If anyone had made a bobblehead of John Calvin in 16th-century Geneva, JC would have had the maker burned, most likely. 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