Pagans in the Pews
Here’s an encouraging report from theooze.com about an evangelical church in Salem, Massachusetts, that is working hard to create meaningful dialogue between Christians and Neopagans:
Lucifer’s Pawn?
Yesterday at the Lay-Cistercians gathering a friend of mine gave me a flyer for an event coming up in a couple of weeks featuring Moira Noonan, who wrote a book called Ransomed from Darkness: The New Age, Christian Faith, and the Battle for Souls. I’m familiar with the book: a woman who had been praying for my soul ever since my Pagan days sent it to me when she learned that I had become a Catholic. Here’s what the flyer says about Noonan:
Raised as a Catholic, author Moira Noonan began apprenticeship in New Age practices and ideas as a college student. Over a twenty-five year time-frame, she worked in Religious Science ministry, as a psychic counselor and a therapist. She became certified or developed expertise in such areas as Hypnotherapy, Past Life Regression, Astrology, the Course in Miracles, Reiki, channeling, crystals, goddess spirituality, clairvouance [sic], and other occult practices. In 1993, after an exorcism and a series of powerful conversion experiences, she returned to the Church, and is now a popular speaker in the Christian community, witnessing and evangelizing, and explaining the deeper meaning of the New Age movement.
Sigh.
I know the reason why so many of my friends in the Pagan community were upset with me becoming a Catholic. They were afraid this is what I’d turn into. (more…)
