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Wandering About in the Dark

4 June 2023 By David Trounce

Wandering About in the Dark

In C.S Lewis' The Screwtape letters, a young demon by the name of Wormwood is being schooled by his Uncle Screwtape on how to get his 'Patient' (a recently converted Christian) to fall away from the faith. Dear Wormwood, You no longer need a good book, which he really … [Read more...] about Wandering About in the Dark

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Thor's Oak

Around 723 AD, a missionary named Boniface entered Hesse in Germany. Upon finding a sacred tree named Thor’s Oak, he took an axe to it, cut it down and built a church. Many in the town, believing that the God of Boniface must be greater than Thor, left their paganism behind converted to Christianity.