" The songs of our ancestors
are also the songs of our children "
I used to think that the Bahai’i faith was the religious equivalent of Esperanto – combining all the world’s faiths into one universal religion that united all humanity. In reality Bahai’ism is a religion that is essentially Abrahamic, with Baha’Ullah being seen as the next great world saviour. An attempt at a more universal approach […]
Here is OBOD member John Beckett’s fabulous interview of OBODie, author and founder and head of the Anglesey Druid Order, Kristoffer Hughes. John’s wonderful Blog, Under the Ancient Oaks – musings of a Pagan, Druid and Unitarian Universalist can be found here. Kristoffer Hughes is a native Welsh speaker, born to a Welsh family in the mountains […]
The image of an ancient Druid suggests the archetypal wise person – a forest sage steeped in knowledge of the Old Ways. Even the etymology of the word Druid points to wisdom – with the first syllable – Dru – coming from the Proto-Indo-European root meaning tree, especially the oak, and the Id syllable coming […]
In 1989 I gave a talk at the first Christians & Druids conference, held at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire. You can read it here. Twenty-five years later, at Imbolc, I found myself at another Christians & Druids (and Pagans) meeting, this time convened at the Ammerdown Centre, near Radstock in Somerset. After a stimulating weekend […]