Dear Julia,
why not just pay the price for your faith? What is your faith really woth
if you are not willing to practice it openly? The historical success of
Christianity with its martyrs may give you some inspiration.
I am a Christian myself, and I believe in freedom of conscience for everone.
But what if the believers themselves are not free to live according to their
consciene (like yourself) ?
(I am no native English speaker, if the above message sound rude, pleasse
forgive me. I mean to encourage you!)
Dagmar Gollatz
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Reserved, because I am working in academia again
> in a one year position (after 4 years in hiatus) and I have been a
> mostly solitary follower of the Goddess since 1990 or so. I see so many
> of you on that path too and applaud your willingness to speak freely. I
> am feeling constrained about my faith association and not knowing how
> open I can be about that on my campus. There is much evidence that I
> have no fears about practicing with the students and other staff (as I
> do that already). I can also easily go to multi-faith services here and
> am only identified as a person of faith. Yet I do not know how this will
> be viewed by my department and other faculty members. Have any of you
> had any experiences that you might share with me to embolden me?
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