The Path of a Christian Witch: A Book Review

Our prayers and incantations are not about calling on the spirits and gods to intervene in our lives, although the limitations of language can make liturgy sound like that. Instead, our mythologizing, storytelling, and ritualizing is about dealing with the innermost part of the human condition that sometimes cowers, afraid in the world of shadows and eternally reaching toward the light. The juncture between institutional or theological understanding of that process and personal experience of the sacred is where we have a tendency to come unstuck.

Adelina St. Clair has faced up to how Christianity has evolved over time. However uncomfortable her story is, you cannot pigeonhole her without realizing that by shaving pieces off her to fit a predetermined mold, you're replaying the conformity game yourself.

Instead, take courage this Christmas in the drawing together of Pagan and Christian strands. Stand close as Mother Mary bears down to birth the Christ child. As he sucks in his first life giving oxygen may we know God as the breath of life from which all things flow and give thanks for that which was lost is now found (p. xvii).

12/23/2010 5:00:00 AM
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