{"id":7952,"date":"2016-05-01T06:13:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T12:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7952"},"modified":"2016-04-30T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:19:30","slug":"more-links-hand-forged-ones-at-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7952","title":{"rendered":"More Links \u2014\u00a0Hand-Forged Ones At That"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utility seax from Fay’s Forge<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2022 At Fay’s Forge<\/strong> you may buy “knives, swords, and do castings from the Celtic, migration, Anglo Saxon, and Norse cultures<\/a>.” Support your local shieldmaiden<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong>Probably it would be more accurate<\/strong> to say that the planned Black Mass terrifies some<\/em> Christians in Oklahoma. <\/a>And before you dump on Oklahoma, remember that Harvard University backed down from a similar proposal!<\/p>\n

\u2022 I have ordered this book:<\/strong> Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

With Daesh slaughtering and enslaving Yezidis and Mandeans,<\/a> etc., “disappearing” may not be an exaggeration. As a long review in The Revealer <\/em><\/a>asks,<\/p>\n

Will the funeral pyres of the Zoroastrians still alight the dusks of Iran and India? Will the Copts still maintain the well where Mary and Joseph quenched Jesus\u2019 thirst upon the flight into Egypt? Will the Samaritans still smear the blood of the lamb upon their lintels as their ancestors in bondage did? Will the wooden idols of the Kalasha look out at the unforgiving and cragged landscape of the Kush? What of the Yazidis who believe that God is so benevolent that even the devil can be saved? Or the Mandaeans who whisper secrets in the language of the Magi and the Chaldean wizards?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 At Fay’s Forge you may buy “knives, swords, and do castings from the Celtic, migration, Anglo Saxon, and Norse cultures.” Support your local shieldmaiden. \u2022 Probably it would be more accurate to say that the planned Black Mass terrifies some Christians in Oklahoma. 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