Back to School: Reading, Writing, and . . . Witchcraft?

Reportedly, Yale’s History of the Night course features “a cross-disciplinary approach to examine how the night became the abode of the ghost, the devil, the witch, and the dead.”

Duke University’s Radical Magic course culminates in making a personal “spell book” and includes students giving each other psychic readings.

One of Georgetown University’s courses is all about “rituals, symbols, shamanism, expanded states of consciousness, spirit possession, magic, divination and witchcraft.”

And it goes on from there. Two of our staff looked at other colleges, including several prominent Canadian universities and found that, yes, many colleges are indeed offering these classes to their students!

God created us to yearn for him and to desire meaning and purpose—things the naturalistic, atheistic worldview cannot provide.

It’s a reminder that secular is not neutral. As our culture abandons its once Christianized foundation, it doesn’t become some kind of neutral space with a nebulous worldview divorced from spirituality and grounded in “science” and “reason.” That’s because, contrary to the naturalistic view, we are not mere biological beings. We are a body and a soul. God created us to yearn for him and to desire meaning and purpose—things the naturalistic, atheistic worldview cannot provide. So people turn to “spirituality,” or even demonic teachings like witchcraft, to fill that void—because as much as people want spirituality, they also love darkness rather than light, and these kinds of mystical teachings fulfill that desire (at least temporarily).

Anyone who goes to the waters of witchcraft, shamanism, divination, psychic readings, and so on will be thirsty again. Those “broken cisterns” don’t satisfy. But Jesus does. He is the water of life that will never leave you thirsty. He is the bread of life that lasts forever. He gives meaning and purpose for now and eternity.

Young people are searching—desperately searching . . . this should remind us that we have the hope of eternity to share with everyone.

Yes, young people are searching—desperately searching. But they are looking in all the wrong places. This should remind us that we have the hope of eternity to share with everyone, even those dabbling in or caught totally up in witchcraft.

For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. (Ephesians 5:8)

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:13–14)

Oh, and if you are concerned about the state of our colleges and are wondering where to send your child, I encourage you to register them for our free 2024 College Expo at the Ark Encounter, November 7–9, 2024. We also provide special discounts to the family to visit the Ark during that time.

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Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.