I suppose one of the greatest mercies God affords us is that when we’re born, we haven’t the skills to wonder about what a curious thing being is. You are, and that’s how it all begins. One of the saddest things, however, is that many people never begin to wonder about that. Journey isn’t going […]
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A couple of weeks ago I complained about the lack of depth, metaphysical depth particularly, in the Harry Potter books and in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. Both novels let us down in that regard, because both deal with magic, the supernatural, and environments where people ought to be preoccupied with The Way Things […]
You should take a look at this movie. I’m not going to write a proper review of it; that’s been done better elsewhere and elsewhere again. But I would like to make a point about John Carter. This story, true to the book, looks at the question I posed in another post a couple of […]
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned Christian magic, Christian charms and spells, common enough in the Middle Ages but pretty much extinct now. Find that post here. And I left the subject wondering what happened to this custom. Why did it disappear? The charms weren’t particularly pagan, so it can’t be that everybody suddenly […]
Would your priest cast a spell for you? Maybe you need a fever or a headache or dropsy healed, or you need the crops to grow, or you have an elf chasing you around, or you need the bees to settle and stop swarming. So you ask your priest or preacher for a little help. […]
