Pagans
Celebrate
By Kevin Eigelbach
Post staff reporter - The Cincinnati Post
Clifton, Ohio - The 10-year-old boy was
listening in Sunday school. But David Gordon-Johnson wasn't learning about
the Bible -- he was learning how to become a good Pagan. David's Sunday
school class is part of Earthspirit, the St. John's Covenant of Unitarian
Universalist Pagans in Clifton. It's not your grandmother's church. The
lesson for David and other youngsters in Clare Iverson's class for third-
and fourth-graders was about a Pagan goddess, the Queen of May, and the
moral was that love conquers all. David learned this: "The goddess
blesses all kinds of love," the 10-year old from Clifton said.
"There's no limit to the kinds of love there can be. The goddess said
you could say yes to the kind of love you want and no to the ones you
don't want." Sunday on the lawn of the church in Clifton, the
children of Earthspirit celebrated the pagan holiday Beltane with their
annual Maypole dance. Many of them wore wreaths on their heads made from
pipe cleaners and flowers, both artificial and real. Iverson herself wore
a wreath of holly leaves, and a necklace with an image of the goddess.
They celebrated the earth's return to life after the dying off in winter.
"It reminds the kids of our responsibility to care for the
earth," Iverson said.
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