{"id":297,"date":"2004-10-30T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2004-10-30T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T16:11:00","slug":"297","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

More on the ‘Episcopagans’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Druid-Episcopal Church controversy has now moved from the blogosphere to the serious religion journalists at GetReligion, who summarize the whole scandal here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I do see some bloggers gleefully tossing out the term “Episcopagan” as though they cleverly just invented it. Within the Pagan community, the term has been used since the early 1970s, at least, to describe those who like to perform rituals with lots of candles, incense, and other props. <\/p>\n

This is all fascinating, but I have to go prune the apple tree and manure the garden now. Oh yes, and reserve a virgin for the Samhain sacrifice. And then grade student papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More on the ‘Episcopagans’ The Druid-Episcopal Church controversy has now moved from the blogosphere to the serious religion journalists at GetReligion, who summarize the whole scandal here. I do see some bloggers gleefully tossing out the term “Episcopagan” as though they cleverly just invented it. Within the Pagan community, the term has been used since […]<\/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-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-297","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":676,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=676","url_meta":{"origin":297,"position":0},"title":"Let's drop 'Neopagan'Back in the\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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