My friend A. has written an amazing, thoughtful and compassionate post about why World AIDS Day matters beyond the usual advice to use condoms and practice safer sex. Please have a read at A.’s LiveJournal.
Pagan Convent Needs Help! October 21, 2009
There’s an article up at The Wild Hunt about the Maetreum of Cybele, which is apparently experiencing problems with local harassment and religious discrimination.
I had the good fortune to meet Rev. Cathryn a few years ago. She is a sensible, devout and honest woman who has been involved in Paganism for decades. Her Cybelline reconstructionist organization currently runs (to my knowledge) the only brick-and-mortar Pagan convent in the United States.
If you can help the Maetreum find a sympathetic, competent attorney or would like to make a donation to their legal fund, I encourage you to do so. The Maetreum is at the vanguard of modern Pagan monasticism, and it would be a great shame for it to have to close its temple and convent doors over something so pointless and harmful as this.
