Witchful Thinking
Witchcraft Goes Mainstream by Brooks Alexander
Witchcraft Goes Mainstream: Uncovering Its Alarming Impact on You and Your Family
Harvest House Publishers, 2004
(284 pages, $11.99, paperback)
reviewed by David Haddon
In Witchcraft Goes Mainstream, Brooks Alexander—who converted from the counterculture to Christianity in 1969 and went on to found the Spiritual Counterfeits Project—turns his attention to the accelerating self-paganization of American society. His personal relationships with neopagans in the San Francisco Bay area and his study of historical and modern witchcraft make him a reliable guide for Christians who want to love their neopagan neighbors.
But I think that his acute analysis of the subversive appropriation of elements . . .
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David Haddon is an author from Redding, California, who has written for InterVarsity Press and Baker Book House and whose articles have appeared in Christianity Today, National Review, and Learning. He holds a B.S. in engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. in politics and literature from the University of Dallas.
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