The Path of a Christian Witch

About the Author

Adelina St. Clair has been a student of Wicca and Paganism for over ten years—a passion she combines with an ever-growing interest in Christian studies. She has also studied fields as varied as microbiology, bioethics, Reiki, shamanism, theology, and herbalism.

Adelina works as an occupational therapist in a Cree community in northern James Bay, Quebec, Canada, where she lives with her husband and two children. She also spends part of the year in Montreal with her family.

Please visit her website, www.adelinastclair.com.

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The Path of a Christian Witch
© 2010 by Adelina St. Clair.

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To my family,
for giving me a place to lay my roots

To Marek, my everything,
for being husband, soul mate, teacher, and friend

And to Jakub and Chiara,
for allowing me to witness love grow
right before my eyes

Acknowledgments

As always, to Whitney Lee, my agent; Diana James, my manager; and to all the good folks at Llewellyn Worldwide/Midnight Ink, especially Bill Krause, Rebecca Zins, Marissa Pederson, and Ellen Dahl.

To the folks who allowed me to pick their talented and expert brains: attorney Mark Hardiman; Felicia Donovan, author of
Cyber Crime Fighters: Tales from the Trenches
; Lee Lofland, author of
Police Procedure & Investigation
; and Officer Brenda Tozloski of the Sunderland Police Department.

Special thanks to the many people I met while researching this book, especially the folks at Mike’s Maze in Sunderland, Massachusetts (http://www.mikesmaze.com).

And last, but never least, to my dear friends and family, who are always by my side.

Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1:
Foundations

Chapter 2:
The Search: Introduction to a Paradox

Chapter 3:
The Merging: Dealing with the Contradictions

Chapter 4:
Living in the World: To Worship, to Seek, to Love

Chapter 5:
Spirit in Action: Ten Rituals for Daily Life

In Closing . . .

Appendix:
Comparative Chart

Glossary

Bibliography

Foreword

I am a Christian Witch. It has taken me many years to be able to say these words with the reverence that they deserve. It took years of searching, reading, questioning, and heading sometimes into the darkest of places and sometimes into the brightest. Many years it took me to make this statement without fear or guilt or apology. After countless attempts at explaining my path, I have found that there is no short explanation of what it is. And mere explaining, I have realized, does no justice to the profound journey of self-discovery and liberation Christian Witchcraft has led me on. It is a journey of experience, of coincidences and of pure magic, of random roads taken and of special encounters. Above all, it is a purely personal process.

This is my diary, my testimony. All names have been changed to preserve anonymity. I only hope that my stories inspire you to open your eyes to your own magic and to follow your own journey of discovery.