{"id":446,"date":"2009-12-22T15:18:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T15:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2009\/12\/pagans-at-the-parliament-of-world-religions.html"},"modified":"2009-12-22T15:18:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T15:18:39","slug":"pagans-at-the-parliament-of-world-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2009\/12\/pagans-at-the-parliament-of-world-religions.html","title":{"rendered":"Pagans at the Parliament of the Worlds Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I have been so focused on my own work that I failed to pay any attention to the Pagans presence at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliamentofreligions.org\/\">Parliament of the World Religions<\/a>, held in Melbourne, Australia. &nbsp;My bad. &nbsp;One of the best pieces of news from this year&#8217;s Parliament was that we were not controversial. &nbsp;We According to Don Frew, who was one of the attendees, we were taken for granted as members just like everyone else. &nbsp;That is a great step forward for us. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many Pagans who were there as well as some at home had set up a <a href=\"http:\/\/parliament.pagannewswirecollective.com\/\">Pagans at the Parliament<\/a> blog where issues of importance to us all were and continue to be discussed. &nbsp;Along with many day to day news pieces, there were some discussions of issues basic to who we are. &nbsp;I was particularly impressed with T. Thorne Coyle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/parliament.pagannewswirecollective.com\/2009\/12\/spirit-in-flesh-another-parliament-blog\">meditation on Pagans, the earth, and modernity<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;I recommend it enthusiastically.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been so focused on my own work that I failed to pay any attention to the Pagans presence at the&nbsp;Parliament of the World Religions, held in Melbourne, Australia. &nbsp;My bad. &nbsp;One of the best pieces of news from this year&#8217;s Parliament was that we were not controversial. &nbsp;We According to Don Frew, who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pagan-news","category-pagan-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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