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A Christian's Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
Once you study world religions and other cultures, historic and/or modern, you break out of the conceptual mould in which you have been constrained. The pint pot of your earlier thought systems cannot contain the gallon or more that the mind has ...
frankbeswick, on 05/10/2014
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As I said, I'm amazed that you can go so long without a meal. Ten hours is a long time for me. No snacks at all?
Mira, on 05/10/2014
A Christian's Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
Yay! And I've just added a whole lot more to the end of this article, based on the comments that I've received here and elsewhere. :)
For those coming here later, those commenting below didn't have reference to the sections on Magic/Sorcery ...
JoHarrington, on 05/10/2014
A Christian's Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
I do not believe that phrases should be copyrighted, so go ahead, use it when you wish.
There seems to be something about having Celtic blood. My spirit resonates to traditional Irish and Scottish folk music, and I have always been sensitive ...
frankbeswick, on 05/10/2014
How Can Christians Explain Their Faith to Muslims?
Thanks, Jo. Trinity is a thought mode that seems to be part of the human intellectual apparatus. The original triadic formula is found in Paul: the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with ...
frankbeswick, on 05/10/2014
A Christian's Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
I do hope that you haven't copyrighted 'the procrustean bed of the empirical', because that's fabulous and I hope to add it to my stock phrases!
I do believe that its your British/Irish blood talking in that nature as the divine thing. The ...
JoHarrington, on 05/10/2014
Jesus Through Pagan Eyes: a Christian Reflection and Analysis
Oh! I somehow missed that you'd reviewed this! I'm yet to read it, though I believe that Janet Farrar - who initiated me - is in there. If so, you heard from one of the best in our religion.
Thanks for this insight. I've not really anything ...
JoHarrington, on 05/10/2014
A Christian's Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
Callanish at night;awesome and profound. There is a wide variety of modes of experience, religious, mysterious, that cannot be straitjacketed into the procrustean bed of the empirical.They must be taken seriously and vaued, as I believe they are ...
frankbeswick, on 05/10/2014
How Can Christians Explain Their Faith to Muslims?
As an outsider looking in, I've always considered Christianity and Islam to be pretty much the same religion. Just with Jesus as the main focus in one, and Mohammed as the focal point in the other. I remember chatting with a Muslim friend ...
JoHarrington, on 05/10/2014
A Christian's Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
WordChazer 2 - You're on the right lines with the May Queen (though I hadn't made the link with Miss World! Nice one!), but it's her consort who has more to fret about re sacrifices. I know it's not the most obvious source in the world, but I ...
JoHarrington, on 05/10/2014
A Christian's Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
WordChazer - A much belated congratulations on your graduation then!
Just in case I never spelled out mine (though I should imagine it's obvious), my BA was in History with Philosophy and my MA was just History alone.
On behalf of witches ...
JoHarrington, on 05/10/2014
A Christian's Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
VioletteRose - If you are Hindu, then I believe that you already class as Pagan. :) At least from the point of view of Abrahamic religions, you are. Though over time, I'm sure that's come to signify my lot as opposed to yours. Let's wait on ...
JoHarrington, on 05/10/2014
A Christian's Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
Frank - I would like to add that the Isle of Lewis is definitely worth a visit. In addition to the island's many charms, I had one of the most profoundly spiritual moments of my Pagan life in the Callanish stone circle at night.
I'm not sure ...
JoHarrington, on 05/10/2014
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You have no idea how much I am. And now that you're reading Outlander too, you know what I'm waffling on about!
JoHarrington, on 05/10/2014
How Can Christians Explain Their Faith to Muslims?
There are different pathways through Christianity. I do not demand that everyone attends church as I do, but there are ceremonies that I do not use, so some people might condemn me for that.
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2014