An Anglican vicar in the UK has banned yoga classes at the parish hall.
“I fully appreciate that for some people yoga is just exercise, but I am also aware that yoga is often a gateway to others things, such as Eastern mysticism,” the Rev. Dick Farr told Reuters Wednesday. “We are here to promote Jesus and don’t want to offer a platform to anybody who is going to undermine that.”
The ban, Farr says, has the backing of the church council and most local residents.
Of course, given the dwindling numbers in the Anglican church, one has to wonder the point. Heck, even if the yoga instructors were busy “recruiting,” one would think anything that got folks down the local church would offer an opportunity for the Rev. Farr to do the same. At least it seems to me that’s sort of how Jesus worked ….