{"id":376,"date":"2005-02-07T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2005-02-07T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T23:00:00","slug":"376","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

No more crones on broomsticks<\/strong><\/p>\n

So says Brooks Alexander<\/a>, author of the latest anti-cult ministry book on contemporary Paganism (hey, we dropped the “Neo-” a while back), Witchcraft Goes Mainstream<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n

“The old crone on a broomstick is gone,” says Alexander. “In her place is a young, hip, sexually magnetic woman who worships a goddess and practices socially acceptable magic.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Rich Poll of Apologia Report<\/a> crows over the book’s favorable mention on a Pagan blog:<\/a> “Praise from one’s opponent is high praise indeed.” <\/p>\n

The author claims “personal experience in the occult,” but then that can mean anything from a detailed study of Neoplatonic theurgy to merely having used a Ouija board once, so who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No more crones on broomsticks So says Brooks Alexander, author of the latest anti-cult ministry book on contemporary Paganism (hey, we dropped the “Neo-” a while back), Witchcraft Goes Mainstream. “The old crone on a broomstick is gone,” says Alexander. “In her place is a young, hip, sexually magnetic woman who worships a goddess and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-376","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":319,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=319","url_meta":{"origin":376,"position":0},"title":"Alexander and the Critics I\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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