Category: Druidry
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TDN honours Philip Carr-Gomm
The Druid Network is delighted to mark the stepping down of Philip Carr-Gomm from his leading role at the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids by presenting him an Honorary Membership. In thanks for his thirty two years of service as OBODs Chosen Chief, TDN has also planted thirty two trees in his name in…
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https://www.stopecocide.earth
The Druid Network would like to acknowledge the passing into mystery of UK barrister Polly Higgins. Polly was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer quite recently and was blessed with a swift passing earlier today. She was the driving force behind Mission Lifeforce, recently relaunched as StopEcocide.Earth, which calls for an International crime of Ecocide which…
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Subscription fees held
At the Annual General Meeting on 12th April, The Druid Network determined for the sixteenth year in a row to hold its annual membership subscription at Ten Pounds, £10. Ten Pounds won’t buy you much, nowadays; a couple of pints, perhaps a coffee and a cake, a year of TDN… Your subscription enables the public…
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New Zealand Atrocity
The Druid Network shares the sorrow of all the rational world following the shootings in New Zealand. There is no place on our already threatened planet for extremist ideology, and hatred of the other is always only a moment away from hatred of all. We set our minds anew to the work of seeking connection,…
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TDN : Sweet Sixteen
The Druid Network, although formally Constituted at Samhain 2005, was birthed at Imbolc in 2003. We are sixteen! There may be cake.
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World Druid Survey
TDN Member Larissa is conducting a survey of modern Druid practice around the world, as part of an OBOD Mount Haemus paper. The survey project intends to gather data on how modern Druidry has evolved and how practices have shifted around the world. The survey will track how Druidry has spread around the globe as…
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Pagans marginalised by the BBC
By TDN Member Stuart Jeffery For many years I have listened to Thought for the Day on Radio 4 and enjoyed other aspects of religious programmes but as someone who has identified as a Druid and Pagan for over 25 years it seems that we get very little coverage by the likes of the BBC.…
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Update – Law Commission and Marriage Law Reform
TDN has received a follow up email from the Law Commission in relation to an earlier scoping report into possible marriage law reform in England and Wales. Thank you for your interest in the Law Commission’s work on potential reform of weddings law. We recommended in December 2015 following a scoping study that the law…
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TDN Reviews Renew!
The Reviews section of the TDN web site is being rekindled (no pun intended) and contacts to reviews@druidnetwork.org will be acknowledged by bish in the immediate future. If publishers of relevant material would like to offer new and upcoming work for review TDN will make best efforts to provide a reviewer and a review, to…
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Charitable Disbursements News
Here’s a new article on the website to chronicle our quarterly charitable disbursements from our Environmental and Conservation fund. We’ll be donating several more of these this year, so if you know any worthy small charities whose goals are in line with ours, would like to vote on potential charities, or even if you yourself…