{"id":296,"date":"2004-10-30T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2004-10-30T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T15:17:00","slug":"296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you be a Druid and an Episcopalian?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/em> blog<\/a> 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<\/a>. And howl<\/a> and howl<\/a> and howl<\/a>. Notice how they blame the man more than the woman; we know that women are naturally sinful and led astray by the Devil, right? <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

My earlier posts here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-296","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":304,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=304","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":0},"title":"One Druid Down","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Fr. 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