For years now I’ve noted a strange phenomenon when I go walking at night. Just as I walk under a street lamp it switches off. Not all the time, mind you, but enough that I’ve noticed. I never really thought about it much, but I always assumed that there was some kind of malfunctioning movement […]
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J.B. Phillips and the Ghost of C.S. Lewis
J..B Phillips was a well known Bible translator of the highly regarded Phillips Translation as well as the author of the popular 1962 book Your God is too Small. In his 1967 book Ring of Truth: A Translator’s Testimony (London: Hodder and Stoughton) Phillips recounts a stunning experience he had with a ghost … and not just any […]
Purgatory for Protestants
In the comments on my discussion of ghosts CC asked: “Dr. Rauser, could you explain the purgatorial possibilities open to Protestants? I’ve never heard of this. It would certainly be fascinating in its interpretive potential as it applies to the paranormal.” Glad to oblige CC. Purgatory, boiled down to essentials, is constituted by the following […]
