[bydesign]

Solace, on 09 March 2010 - 05:16 PM, said:

bydesign, on 09 March 2010 - 05:12 PM, said:

I have never read anything by Anne Frye, but one day our family was visiting a church we don't regularly attend for a memorial service and we met another family, the mother of it was a home birth midwife. We told them that one of my daughters is studying midwifery and the husband chimed in saying something like, "Stay away from anything by Anne Frye! It's all new age and you need to protect your daughter from reading that stuff."

Now, I don't even KNOW these people and I was sort of shocked by the forcefulness of his admonishment. It almost made me want to go buy her book and read it straight through, but that's the rebel in me. :D

Anyway, just a heads up to those ladies that are sensitive to that issue, Anne Frye is not a believer.

Anne Frye is very intelligent... I think at one time she was not a believer but I am on a christian midwifery list and I believe this subject is brought up and verified that she is now a believer. As a sidenote, how many books and things in this world are produced by unbelievers? I have read her stuff...I am telling you, she knows her stuff. I haven't found it to be anywhere near as out there spiritually as some midwifery texts, fwiw.

I appreciate your insight here. As I said, I have no experience with the author myself, so that is really helpful. I'm like Jacinda, too. I don't dismiss what someone says just because he is a pagan, either. Knowledge can be valuable from many sources. As an example, I think Ina May Gaskin has some great stuff, but we certainly don't have theological agreement. And a couple of prominent UC authors are Catholic, and so have a different world view from mine. I must say, though, I couldn't get rid of Laura Shanley's book fast enough. Her channeling of the spirit of some dead guy was too creepy for me.