A Flame in the Dark

Every Wednesday at 6 pm a group of us here in Europe light a flame in honour of Brighid. At the moment I am reading, "Confessions of a Pagan Nun" by Kate Horsley and a line struck a deep chord, "The Christians and their tonsured messengers want to separate the souls of the people of this land from the earth they walk on." The news here in the UK has been centred around the murders of five women in Suffolk. Oh, how we have learnt the lesson separating the souls of these women from the ground of their being, even in death, by the use of words - prostitute, sex-worker, "girl", addict.