{"id":48088,"date":"2013-10-25T00:17:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T07:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=48088"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:59:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T03:59:26","slug":"a-reader-asks-if-i-have-heard-of-miryam-van-nazareth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/10\/a-reader-asks-if-i-have-heard-of-miryam-van-nazareth.html","title":{"rendered":"A reader asks if I have heard of &#8220;Miryam van Nazareth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026says, \u201cShe claims to be channeling the Blessed Virgin\u201d and passes along a few quotes from her that sound like a bunch of gnostic quackery.   She concludes: \u201cIf you have thoughts, I\u2019d welcome them.  I know you don\u2019t chase after visions, but you also wrote a really good book about Mary (which I recommend to lots of people).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First off, thanks on the books.  The one volume version of <em>Mary, Mother of the Son<\/em> is going through the typesetting phase and will be available in a few months.  As to \u201cMiryam\u201d and such claims, the basic rule of thumb I use is \u201cThe burden of proof is on the \u2018visionary\u2019 to show he or she is not a quack, not on you to waste time trying to analyze her babbling and parsing through the pile of doo on the off chance there might be a diamond in it.\u201d  There are plenty of approved private revelations, stick with them.  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