Burning is what the new Christians in Ephesus did with the heaps of occult objects they’d accumulated in their years of paganism. The burning was presumably to completely disavow and…
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A Critique of the Ancient Aliens TV Series
The Ancient Aliens TV series (History channel) has viewers asking questions but, in my opinion, not asking far enough down. Let’s look into one sample episode to highlight problems that…
“Ask the Holy Spirit to Tell You?”
I’ve written before on the general topic of “Ask God to Tell You?” What triggered this new post was an instruction I read for making an Oikos map. I’d not…
Visio Divina
We’ve posted about lectio divina here and here. There’s also visio divina (“divine seeing” or “sacred seeing”). What is that exactly? It involves gazing at an icon, work of art,…
Bibliomancy
This information on bibliomancy (“book magic”) is related to the topic of lectio divina, which was addressed here. Merriam-Webster defines bibliomancy as “divination by books, especially the Bible.” A similar…