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UK Prisons Recruit ‘Pagan Chaplains’ on £30k-a-Year Salaries
Breitbart ^ | 2/27/18 | Victoria Friedman

Posted on 03/02/2018 5:35:20 PM PST by marshmallow

The Ministry of Justice is recruiting pagan chaplains to provide “religious care” at prisons across the country – with annual salaries of up to £29,ooo – despite many of the recruiting prisons facing guard shortages, Islamic extremist inmates, and drug epidemics.

“The job holder will provide for the religious care of prisoners and staff in the Pagan faith tradition and appropriate pastoral care for all irrespective of faith or tradition,” one job description for a role covering Dartmoor, Channings Wood, and Exeter prisons reads.

Applicants would be expected to “lead open ritual, officiate in Rites of Passage, and run workshops for mixed Pagan traditions within the prison system” and must be formally endorsed by their “faith community” – through the Prison Service Pagan Faith Adviser.

The pagan chaplain roles advertised on the Ministry of Justice job site, across nearly a dozen ‘clusters’ serving 35 prisons, range in salary from £25,920 to £29,176 per annum pro rata – roughly equivalent to the salary of a prison officer – for full, part-time, and job share applicants. The salary could also include a 17 per cent “unsocial hours” payment.

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TOPICS: Other non-Christian; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: chaplain; chaplains; ministryofjustice; pagan; paganism; unitedkingdom

1 posted on 03/02/2018 5:35:20 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Do the Christian chaplains get the same pay?


2 posted on 03/02/2018 5:36:06 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: marshmallow

Path of nations who forsake GOD...

Deuteronomy 28:15-68
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+28%3A15-68&version=NLT


3 posted on 03/02/2018 6:23:33 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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To: marshmallow

Pagan pastor = oxymoron


4 posted on 03/02/2018 7:24:18 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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