{"id":653,"date":"2006-04-21T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2012-05-22T16:28:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T22:28:23","slug":"653","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Llewellyn Takes on a School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>Llewellyn<\/a>, the largest New Age\/Pagan\/astrological publisher in the US, has pushed a North Carolina school board into a corner. When the board said that “religious groups” could distribute “scripture” in the school’s, Llewellyn’s publicist decided that the works of Silver Ravenwolf would qualify as well.<\/p>\n

Jason Pitzl-Waters has the details<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The whole issue reminds me of the plot line of Heathens Idolize School Prayer<\/em>, one of the Chick<\/a>-style pamphlets distributed by the Aquarian Tabernacle Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s been almost a decade since I was working with Llewellyn<\/a>, and everyone whom I knew there has since moved on, except the Weschckes, who own the company. Carl Weschcke<\/a> has always taken a slightly messianic view of his business, which is not a bad thing for a publisher to do. But he does so while looking at the bottom line.<\/p>\n

“The move was definitely more of an educational motive than a political motive,” says the publicist. Yes, and, if successful, it’s reaching the teen and young-adult customer base that Llewellyn targets.<\/p>\n

This calls for a Glenn Reynolds<\/a>-ish “heh.”<\/p>\n

Tag: Paganism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Llewellyn, the largest New Age\/Pagan\/astrological publisher in the US, has pushed a North Carolina school board into a corner. When the board said that “religious groups” could distribute “scripture” in the school’s, Llewellyn’s publicist decided that the works of Silver Ravenwolf would qualify as well. Jason Pitzl-Waters has the details. 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