Church Festival for Gays, Tattooed and Generally Liberal Folk

THE ECONOMIST
By Shakora Hills

NORTH CAROLINA - At least 25 Christian music festivals are held each summer in America, but they have never catered for theological liberals. Until this year, that is, when the —named Wild Goose Festival after a Celtic symbol for the Holy Spirit—kicked off on June 23rd on 72 wooded acres in eastern North Carolina, not so far from the intellectual hub of Raleigh-Durham. The idea, seven years in the making, was based on Britain’s Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham, which draws 20,000 people a year. About 1,500 people came to the American version, which explicitly pitched its appeal to artists and musicians, nonconformists, post-Christians, non-Christians, disaffected evangelicals and a liberal evangelical subset known as the “emergent” church. [link]