The church needs the pod rinsing. If he didnt exist, youd have to invent him. And hes a man of faith and brings progress to the church. The self proclaimed rebel is an edinburgh vulcan. Got his mission is an unusual one. Hes leading a group from the varia on a whisky pilgrimage through scotland. Whiskey he says, is holy, water, spirituality and spirits are one. For many years, the priest has been organizing whiskey pilgrimages in his spare time. That usually for he booked. This is the 1st group tore since the cobra pandemic hit. But this isnt the 1st time David Williams has met golf gun water rises, id. Hello. Can you hear me now . Yeah, wonderful. Were ready to head out to my happy welcome to the Promised Land of scotland. Love williams regularly drives for whiskey tours. The taught it was the 1st who showed him they could be christian pilgrimages. Guinasso, hulu, gang, come off the clean. I know weve got a dog collar on this 1st, like i said to him is, this will kill, you know, we going to be drinking whiskey. And he said, well, you know, the angels drinker so, so i was quite a good answer that really help any answer back from then you know, so yeah, yeah, but is clay chill guy. And i am indeed, spiritually to make sure that we get plenty of the other kind of spiritual sustenance. One the, its like lets start off with the 1st devotion under beginning in the, in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit. Saying oh in, oh, i, i oh, i. Before the pandemic, the rugged beauty of scotland attracted about 15000000. 00 tourists a year. The many whiskey distilleries are a major draw. Many of them cater to visitors. They offered tours and just as importantly, whiskey tastings because oliver sticks this am i the most important thing is mindfulness opened and we dont just go down the alcohol on gun. We perceive whats offered to us with all our senses focus. Its the comic islands in involved. Does this, this is in a while drinking sprague likeness. So its an exercise and mindfulness and at the same time and exercise in moderation, bunk domestic or the talk Group Approaches the tasting with a kind of sober scientific curiosity. So it all seems more like a laboratory than a pub. This one and some dont taste at all. They just sniff thats cold nosing. Mother looking through these windows. You gaze directly at the heavens. Huh. Is tossed cuz the historically, the whiskey comes from an ecclesiastical context. Panam kaitlin context. Rashana whiskey is probably the only product that was invented behind monastery walsall, botanist as high as you hop on here. Im so the product we have here is truly of religious and church. Origin wash boxes ah, for those gun quota, the rugged landscape is also a place of solace. A place he fled to in his thoughts at a time of deep crisis. It began in 2004. 0 to had come into conflict with the new bishop at the seminary. After an argument, he suffered a dizzy spell. The bishop told him to take a seat on the sofa. At some point, the bishop made him take some sort of medication. Then he says, the bishop tried to rape him. Ah, as if an isnt on the hall when i came home that evening to overcome my feelings of revulsion and shame. Glad i drank a glass of wine on is was, i didnt know what the bishop had given me. Uprise taught us why and it was a psycho tropic drug. When im combining that with alcohol is of course a very bad idea. Think pushed the deer. Come from that moment on. I draw a blank license. I cant remember anything about that evening as yet. Is it at some point later that night i john i too or i fell off the balcony of my apartment. I couldnt man aboard on i dont know the fallen spoon. I cant remember anything nice to have a kind of a no hung lotto remained silent. The bishop was his superior. He continued to work for the bishop for 4 more years and says he was subjected to bizarre tests and punishments until he finally found a new job as a chaplain. As one fear, these were 4 horrible years which have left their mark on me. The lawson harmony mischief cupid had a profound effect on me. I could cite half and they showed me the kind of absurdities and brutalities. The church is capable of just over the years. More and more victims of abuse and the church went public or to try to confide in a cardinal. But no one wanted to hear his story. Thus most distant sufficient for kent, his name, and by that point i had come to realize that my church unfortunately has a culture of silence hashed thus mun, there were things that desperately needed to be spoken about and loosened by because that was the only way to get to the bottom of things and move in the right direction, delighted that instead of like, i just brushed it under the carpet, just moved us, and they wanted to keep it all under wraps and cover it up lumpkin. Walter has written a book about his story. The accused bishop sued him but lost in both the lower court and on appeal beckoned the pilgrimage. The group spent the night in kelso. The town lies in the Scottish Borders region, not far from england. Its as every one. Okay. Ah, wouldnt of off there it, people are ready to talk. Next, stop abbotsford, and morgan. Gorda has organized something special. Debit, who will participate in the intercessions. There are several ven, mirror site. I still have to, would you like one think it is. Im going to change. Feel free to start heading inside a service is then held in the chapel. The priest wants to make sure the spirituality is not neglected on the whisky pilgrimage. Oh, my mom and when you really saver a whisky hoster, you can sense that god meant to share his blessings with us. Humans, the scotus. Good mittens mentioned mine, thus out that he wants to enrich our lives and grant us joy most when they live. We experience it again and again here on our travels and, and, and when you enjoy wisdom in the company of others, it tastes even better in the mazel quote. Once i leave loy vance gung halter is bringing people back into the folds of the church. More people like christina, she left the church more than 30 years ago, even though she still felt close to the catholic faith. So i am on the list, i skipped these eloisa, do you do like the ideologues fundamentalists in fanatics them . It is that the light of reason may dawn on them caught thorns off. Ha, ah, its been catullus. I was raised catholic and i still feel connected to the catholic church, but its too confining for me saying a lot of what they preach as foreign to me saying. So i left the church a code with both gang. I know its different. Does nisha english voc gun got as idiosyncratic approach works . Thanks party to whiskey and partly to scotland. This is the 3rd distillery on the pilgrimage. There is a tour here too. And the group listened attentively. Nearby cross are you gonna get punched by smell . Barbara bar. Its really nice, so feel free to come out one by one. Have a nice all check of it. With theres an element of ritual to the tours patiently. They listen over and over to the story of how barley, east and water become a whiskey point. The bus driver is waiting outside. Hes already driven many tall groups. But the whiskey pilgrims are a favorite. Very civilized group. Yeah. Yeah. Theyre very easy to get along with very friendly. They dont seem to get very drunk, they seem to be interested in how the whiskey as me, than where its common, strong stuff like that. So its not as if they just knocking them back. So its like so, yeah, yeah, i mean this that theres no chance obama on the boss which im quite happy about in the end, its back to edinburgh. Vulcan quarter is forging his own path in the church and he doesnt shy away from. Hes also openly gay. Hes given his blessing to queer and same sex couples and favors ordaining women to the priesthood. He openly denounces abuses in the catholic church, much to the displeasure of some this is on a farm dish. It must be dixon experience i have encountered over and over. As i said, the church sees me as a kind of traitor because i speak up and talk about things that dont cast a good light on the church. The kind go to sleep off t kish of elfin, rather see me as a kind of agitator, lead on a good way. He among the someone who doesnt give up and someone who doesnt let himself be silas husky among there is someone who always speaks up about whats important to him, whats in big biggest in the end, the tor group has prepared a surprise for him. The participants, he only pay for travel food, a lodgings hotter, does all the organizing and guiding on a voluntary basis in his bad time. He has an inkling of what is about to come his way. Hes a bit nervous later. He says that prays and compliments. Make him feel awkward. Yeah. As well. Good. It was wonderful. I had to call a totally beautiful trip until mm hm. As i, and thats why we spared no expense and effort to hire some very famous singers 1000000000 to say, oh, for english, you know, thing right here for you. They brought a choir, cooper, i proudly bruce, and the funny must warning thing us Juan Gonzalez again. Oh good, im good. Oh oh, oh ha. Ah, its been not in a still in the church. All right and pardon . 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