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A Pagan Among the Mainstream Churches in Boise
My husband and I are Pagans. Not Wiccans, simply "Pagans." Over the years, my husband has been one of the few Pagans (and there are few enough of them in Boise as it is) who has not been afraid to step up publicly to assist in the Idaho Hunger Relief Task Force efforts to alleviate hunger in this state. http://www.idahohunger.org/index.cfm
As part of the Idaho Interfaith Roundtable Against Hunger (http://www.iirah.org/), he has met and made friends with
Boise is known for having two well-known Christian activists, Bryan Fischer and Brandy Swindell, who are always on local TV, or writing editiorials in the newspapers on their various "causes." You will not see their church, The Vineyard (http://www.vineyardboise.org/) on the list of affiliates of the interfaith roundtable. Why? My guess would be that they are spending their money of promoting themselves and their causes such as restoring a Ten Commandments monument to a public park http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/679797.html Also conspicous in its absence is another large evangelical church in the area, the Treasure Valley Baptist Church http://tvbc.org/. One has to wonder why these churches with large congregations, continually in search of new members and new tithers, would not sign on to a humanitarian cause such as hunger relief in Idaho. If a single Pagan can find time and the willingness to work with people of religions vastly different from his own can do it, why can't they? I think it speaks volumes about the true agenda of such mega-churches.
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