With ah, ah, ah, ah, with its been, im a church rebel. As a stands, the pastor at the church needs to pod rinsing. If he didnt exist, youd have to invent him as a. Hes a man of faith and bring 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 very eye 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 fully booked. This is the 1st group tor, since the covert pandemic hit. But this isnt the 1st time David Williams has met volved gun water rises with hardly hello. Can you hear me now . Yeah, wonderful. Were ready to head out. Happy welcome to the Promised Land of scotland. Land williams regularly drives for whiskey, toys the taught it was the 1st who showed him, they could be christian pilgrimages, guinasso, hulu, gang, come off the plane, i know without a dog color. And as far as, like i said to him as a so king, you know, going to be drinking whiskey and he said will, you know, the angels drinker so, so i was quite a good answer than really have any answer back from then, you know, so yeah, yeah, but it is pretty cool guy. I definitely am indeed spirit wanted to make sure that we get plenty of the other kind of spiritual sustenance. One that 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, its been, 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 offer tours and just as importantly, whiskey tastings as oliver sticks this, i mean the most important thing is mindfulness opened and we dont just go down the alcohol on the, on we perceive whats offered to us with all our senses focus. Its the comic islands in involved. This is, this isnt a wild drinking sprees, lifeless. 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 and some dont taste at all. They just sniff thats called nosing. And monday, looking through these windows, you gaze directly at the heavens, ha. This story because historically, the whiskey comes from an ecclesiastical context. I am kaitlin context. Rashana whiskey is probably the only product that was invented behind monastery walls, modernised as high as you hop. 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 as if an isnt on the whole when i came home that evening to overcome my feelings of revulsion and shame. Glad i drank a glass of wine on it was, i didnt know what the bishop had given me up, but i thought this was, and it was a psycho tropic drug. When im combining that with alcohol is of course a very bad idea. Think but 50 d from that moment on i draw a blank license. I cant remember anything about that evening as yet. Is it some point later that night i john i to or i fell off the balcony of my apartment. I couldnt man aboard on i dont know the fallen spoon. I cant remember anything. Nifty hob, a kind of a no hunk 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, the mischief cupid had a profound effect on me at sight half, and they showed me the kind of absurdities and brutalities the church is capable. Ah, over the years, more and more victims of abuse and the church went public, ought to try to confide in a cardinal. But no one wanted to hear his story. Thus most dis, insufficient for kent, this 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 miss. And by because that was the only way to get to the bottom of things and move in the right direction. Delighted that instead of one, i just brushed it under the carpet, just moved us and they wanted to keep it all under wraps and cover it up. Vulcan water 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, wasnt of often. There it, people are ready to talk. Next, stop abbotsford and voc gung water has organized something special. Debit, who will participate in the intercessions . There are several in mirror site. I still have 2. Would you like one . Think 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 them on. And then when you really saver a whisky hoster, you can sense that god meant to share his blessings with us. Humans, the scotus. Goat mit on. Se mentioned mine, thus out that he wants to enrich our lives and grant us joy most when they leave. We experience it again and again here on our travels and men, and when you enjoy a wisdom in the company of others, it tastes even better and not mazel good once on leave night. All those can go to 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 now im on the food life. Skip these eloisa to do you do like the idea logs, fundamentalists and fanatics them it is that the light of reason may dawn on them, cartons are ha, ah, its been catullus. I was raised catholic and i still feel connected to the catholic church, but its too confining for me doing a lot of what they preach is foreign to me. So i left the church, shut out with both gang. I know its different. Sneaking is vulcan got as idiosyncratic approach works, thanks party to whiskey and partly to scotland. This is the 3rd distillery on the pilgrimage. Theres a tour here too. And the group listened attentively. Every quarter you want to get punch my smell, barber. Its me and i 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 whisky point. The bus driver is waiting outside. Hes already driven many tor groups. But the whiskey pilgrims are a favorite for 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 is me than where its common, strong stuff like that. So its not as if theyre just knocking them back sort of thing. 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 conflict. Hes also openly gay. Hes given his blessing to queer and same sex couples and favours ordaining women to the priesthood. He openly denounces abuses in the catholic church, much to the displeasure of some that is on a farm dish. Him up, he doesnt experience ive 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 switched off to keisha. We often rather see me as a kind of agitator. We want a good way among the someone who doesnt give up and someone who doesnt let himself be silas as human, there is someone who always speaks up about whats important to him, whats in which figures. In the end, the tall group has prepared a surprise for him. The participants here only pay for travel food, a lodgings hot. It 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 guys. Well, it was wonderful. I had to call a totally beautiful trip until mm hm. Mm hm. And thats why we spared no expense and effort to hire some very famous singers to say, oh my gosh, you know, thing right here for you. They brought a choir box. I proudly bruce, and then funny must born in thing us i scandal. Oh oh ha ah, its been off in a still in the church, all right and pardon . Because i wanted to make sure my voice is still part of the conversation taking the van im good. If i left her, id be playing into the hands of the very people who made me leave me a moment. I wont do them that favor ah, a man, a bicycle, and one. Today i want to find out why the mozilla is one of the most beautiful river escapes in germany. So im off for right along a part of the vill psychopaths. The beautiful landscape is certainly confirmed here. This blank tour is for calmness, chicken necked on d, w. A license to kill insecticides. The chemical lobby is destroying our ecosystem. That poisonous pills are responsible for the biggest infect extinction, the history of via, and pose a threat to our health. It goes to show how unnecessary insecticides actually on me in 60 minutes on w o, what people have to say matters to us for me. Thats why we listen to their stories reporter every weekend on d w. 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