{"id":3367,"date":"2011-10-31T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T22:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2011-10-31T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T22:44:09","slug":"wiccan-green-burials-make-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3367","title":{"rendered":"Wiccan Green Burials Make Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Tribune’s<\/em> Pagans-at-Halloween story focuses on formaldehyde-free “green burials” at Circle Sanctuary in Wisconsin.<\/a><\/p>\n

“The thought of getting filled up with formaldehyde and being placed in a sealed, laminated casket and put into a cement box in the ground is not in keeping with preserving Mother Earth,” said [Ana] Blechschmidt, a volunteer chaplain at Northern Illinois University.<\/p>\n

“We believe the soul is eternal and immortal. So we want to leave as small a physical footprint as possible. If you honor the Earth you live on, how can you desecrate her and still honor the person you’re burying?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I absolutely agree. But I still don’t like the C-word: “church.” I don’t like the expectations of active clergy\/passive congregation-with-a-rectangular building that it carries. I don’t know if the writer applied that term or if the Circle folks used it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Tribune’s Pagans-at-Halloween story focuses on formaldehyde-free “green burials” at Circle Sanctuary in Wisconsin. “The thought of getting filled up with formaldehyde and being placed in a sealed, laminated casket and put into a cement box in the ground is not in keeping with preserving Mother Earth,” said [Ana] Blechschmidt, a volunteer chaplain at […]<\/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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,96,5],"class_list":["post-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-death","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Sj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1070,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1070","url_meta":{"origin":3367,"position":0},"title":"A Ritual with Swan’s Eggs","author":"Chas S. 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