Posted on 06/05/2022 4:03:09 PM PDT by T Ruth
Iliff School of Theology is an official theological school and approved seminary of the United Methodist Church ...
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Tom Wolfe, the president of Iliff, who has been an ordained Methodist elder for over forty years, said in 2020 that the school’s focus is “engaging the moral discourse in the context of multiple cultural constructions of human meaning.”
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The school employs as an admissions representative a Norse Heathen named Alexandra Ravenscroft, who is the head clergy, or Gudellri, of her pagan organization, Forn Sidr of America. Ravenscroft joined Iliff in 2021. In her job at Iliff, she recruits and develops relationships with potential students.
Ravenscroft says she grew up in a conservative Christian family but at the age of seventeen began experimenting with paganism. First, it was Wicca, which incorporates Celtic mythology and occultist beliefs. Next, it was Roman Polytheism, the religion of ancient Rome, which includes gods such as Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Minerva, Mars, Venus, Apollo, and so on. She followed that with Tibetan Esotericism while attending “Tibetan-inspired” Naropa University, a Colorado college founded by a Buddhist. It was after those explorations that she settled on Norse Paganism.
Forn Sidr of America says of Ravenscroft:
Alexandra was called to Heathenry unexpectedly by Odin and her Dísir (female ancestors) during a ritual, drawn to the Norse worldview for its views on personal sovereignty and identity. Her current practice focuses upon reparative ancestral work, transitional work, death work, spirit relationships, landvaettir, space cleansing, banishment, Spacecraft, Seidr, and transformative mysticism. She maintains close relationships with Hel, Freya, her Dísir, and others.
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That's good. She's well prepared for her afterlife.
Does not look like a Valkyrie to me
It sounds like a place that is worse than useless, run by people who believe in nothing. That the UMC is not alarmed by what goes on here in its own institution and, in fact,supports it as a place to train its clergy, speaks volumes.
Imagine taking an evening stroll in the woods and a hulking form looms above you in the murk, and it turns out to be a “god” in the physical form of Odin. I have a feeling the Norse religion such as it is/was would seem a lot less glamorous to this lady.
There’s pretty scant information on the actual religious practice of the Norse, but if what there is, I do find fascinating — and forbidding. Like any primitive Pagan religion, it tends to be a practice of fearful appeasement to wrathful, unpredictable entities, rather than the practice of genuine worship of a loving God.
She can still turn to Jesus before it’s too late.
There are Bishops in the Methodist church who do not believe in the Divinity of Jesus or that the Bible is the Word of God.
A fish rots from the head first.
Just had a visit with a long-time friend who is all in an uproar about what is happening at her Methodist church in South Carolina and is now actively searching for somewhere else to go. It’s hard to leave an association where you’ve raised your kids in all of their church programs, etc., but I said to her, “It might be smart to get out before you start to learn what they’ve been teaching them in those programs.”
Therefore:
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
The August 19 date refers solely to the adoption of the gaysbian agenda, NOT to the “Full Communion” agreement.
Veni, Sanctae Spiritus!
Ping.
The UMC is apostate. Little different than any failed enterprise. Our small country church locked the pastor out and recovered the church from the heretics. Now an independent, conservative, bible-believing congregation growing in the Lord. Get far away while you can. What’s coming is not pretty. Pray & Prep.
Cliche Came Out of Its Cage
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You said ‘The world is going back to Paganism’.
Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the House
Spill from their tumblers a libation to the Erinyes,
And Leavis with Lord Russell wreathed in flowers, heralded with flutes,
Leading white bulls to the cathedral of the solemn Muses
To pay where due the glory of their latest theorem.
Hestia’s fire in every flat, rekindled, burned before
The Lardergods. Unmarried daughters with obedient hands
Tended it By the hearth the white-arm’d venerable mother
Domum servabat, lanam faciebat. at the hour
Of sacrifice their brothers came, silent, corrected, grave
Before their elders; on their downy cheeks easily the blush
Arose (it is the mark of freemen’s children) as they trooped,
Gleaming with oil, demurely home from the palaestra or the dance.
Walk carefully, do not wake the envy of the happy gods,
Shun Hubris. The middle of the road, the middle sort of men,
Are best. Aidos surpasses gold. Reverence for the aged
Is wholesome as seasonable rain, and for a man to die
Defending the city in battle is a harmonious thing.
Thus with magistral hand the Puritan Sophrosune
Cooled and schooled and tempered our uneasy motions;
Heathendom came again, the circumspection and the holy fears ...
You said it. Did you mean it? Oh inordinate liar, stop.
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Or did you mean another kind of heathenry?
Think, then, that under heaven-roof the little disc of the earth,
Fortified Midgard, lies encircled by the ravening Worm.
Over its icy bastions faces of giant and troll
Look in, ready to invade it. The Wolf, admittedly, is bound;
But the bond wil1 break, the Beast run free. The weary gods,
Scarred with old wounds the one-eyed Odin, Tyr who has lost a hand,
Will limp to their stations for the Last defence. Make it your hope
To be counted worthy on that day to stand beside them;
For the end of man is to partake of their defeat and die
His second, final death in good company. The stupid, strong
Unteachable monsters are certain to be victorious at last,
And every man of decent blood is on the losing side.
Take as your model the tall women with yellow hair in plaits
Who walked back into burning houses to die with men,
Or him who as the death spear entered into his vitals
Made critical comments on its workmanship and aim.
Are these the Pagans you spoke of? Know your betters and crouch, dogs;
You that have Vichy water in your veins and worship the event
Your goddess History (whom your fathers called the strumpet Fortune).
C. S. Lewis
what does paganism have to do with LGBTQ?
About what you’d expect it to look like.
They do not know God. And they are fine with that.
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