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But he was nearly as bewildered as I at the answer he gave me.—They don't have homes, they are living there. For Bhupendra, it was the first trip back to Mother India in thirteen years. He was shocked. Everywhere we went, we were surrounded by desperately thin children who begged for the humblest of items: coins, chewing gum, even ballpoint pens—a

You take into your mouth part of a magical being who does magical things. In this enchanted world the pastor knew exactly what he was doing by giving his people Jesus. He was taking them into the arcane mystery of deep enchantment. He was ushering them into the sacred place where they were protected from haunting evil spirits and where white magic

"The Solankis ruled for many years," he says. "And then, seventy-one generations ago, they were defeated." My father asks, "How many years is a generation?" The storyteller looks puzzled, shrugs. In those days people lived to be a hundred years old, so maybe three generations per century? Or four, five, six? He has nev

Spirituality and religion originate in a particular kind of felt experience. These experiences are typically short-lived, surprising and uncontrollable, but they seem, to the person having them, to be highly significant and attractive.