{"id":9623,"date":"2018-06-23T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2018-06-23T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:19:47","slug":"how-paganism-is-good-for-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9623","title":{"rendered":"How Paganism is Good for Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lee Kynaston (The Telegraph, UK)<\/p><\/div>\n

With all the talk about how witchcraft = empowerment for women, here’s something different: “7 things paganism can teach the modern man<\/a>”<\/p>\n

It’s in a newspaper, so don’t expect great depth, but at least it means that the Paganism stories now run at the summer solstice, not just at Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all the talk about how witchcraft = empowerment for women, here’s something different: “7 things paganism can teach the modern man” It’s in a newspaper, so don’t expect great depth, but at least it means that the Paganism stories now run at the summer solstice, not just at Halloween.<\/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":[88,87,5,148],"class_list":["post-9623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-britain","tag-litha","tag-paganism","tag-solstice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2vd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2802,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2802","url_meta":{"origin":9623,"position":0},"title":"‘At Least It Was Dry’","author":"Chas S. 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The link will give you an abstract of the article; the full version is print-only.","rel":"","context":"In \"England\"","block_context":{"text":"England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5670,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5670","url_meta":{"origin":9623,"position":2},"title":"Is the Church of England Desperate or Just Confused about Paganism?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"With the obvious news peg of summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge, the Telegraph reports on a rather odd initiative from the Church of England. The article begins, The church is training ministers to create \u201ca pagan church where Christianity [is] very much in the centre\u201d to attract spiritual believers. 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I became acutely\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Litha\"","block_context":{"text":"Litha","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=litha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":448,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=448","url_meta":{"origin":9623,"position":4},"title":"RevisionIt is hard to think\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"RevisionIt is hard to think about blogging right now. I am halfway through a book re-revision, the outcome of this unfortunate episode. And I am backed up on reading papers for The Pomegranate, but at least that backlog means that papers are coming in. 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