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Friends,
The face of Christianity today is mostly just a mask of a smiling face over cruel politicized rhetoric. The politician invoking Christ to justify murder, the cowering podcast host hiding his abuses in “finding Christ,” the influencer who just wants to “debate” people into submission.

In some ways this is nothing new; Christianity has for centuries been used as a bludgeon; but it seems, doesn’t it, that this has reached a fever pitch in American and wherever else the christian right has got a foothold in power.

The truth is, many of the people who claim to be aiigned with christianity are intent on obscuring or even destroying it.

So why would anyone be a Christian now? Since I’m a christian – following esoteric christianity which might be unrecognizable as christianity in mainstream perception – I thought this was important to talk about. This is the second episode in two back-to-back explorations of christianity today (on AEWCH 303 I talked with Lamorna Ash about the christian revival and why it is both threatening and liberating).

To talk about christianity in my life, I wanted to make sure I didn’t hide away my life in ideas; I wanted to get very personal. So I invited my sister, LAURA SCAPPATICCI, back on the show.
Laura is the host of the podcast THAT GOOD MAY BECOME and also has an interesting path to christianity – especially since both of us were raised with virtually no religion in an otherwise highly christian area of the US. The last time Laura was on, she interviewed me about Rudolf Steiner on AEWCH 225 , as part of my series on esoteric christianity. This time, we keep it close to our own histories, each asking the other three questions about christianity in our lives.

I hope this episode will give you plenty of relfecting surfaces to scry your own life with.

We talk about our parents religious lives – What about yours?

We talk about how our neighbors and communities responded to our spiritual lives (note: not always very kindly!) – What about your neighbors and communities?

And we talk about the ways we find the absurd dissonance with following the Being of Love – that is, the presence of real love that is the substance of christianity – vs just being a christian in the highly polarized way so many find themselves facing or becoming ensnared in today.

I hope you love this episode as much as I enjoyed having this conversaton.

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MORE ON LAURA
For more on my sis, check out her wesbite. And we mention many times an episode we just recorded on her show – so here’s a link to that: Laura and I talking about good and evil in an esoteric conception of nature on the last (for now) episode of Laura’s podcast, That Good May Become.

A few books mentioned on the show: Here’s Helen Keller’s book on esotericism, My Religion. and also Connecting with Nature: Earth and Humanity – What Unites Us? by Karsten Massei.