📚🕊️ Side note: looking into various traditions’ practices around Harrowing of Hell gave me a clue into why BranSan (who comes up with interesting names for thousands of things) kept using a generic name (“The Spiritual Realm”) for something important in the latest Cosmere book: it’s Mormon language.
@toddgrotenhuis In case you were wondering, Methodists have no tradition at all for it. I recall my father griping that “descended into hell” in the creed was replaced with “descended to the dead,” but I had to learn about the harrowing of hell from Dante. Now it’s one of my favorite parts of the whole story.
@dwalbert in the Methodist church I grew up in we said the creedal part but never went much beyond that.
@dwalbert ahh yep!
Started out Methodist. Experimented a lot in college and shortly thereafter (as one does).
Became Mennonite. Now do some Episcopal stuff (mostly as a godparent).
So I guess full circle, because I saw a joke once that was like “what do you call and Anglican-ish Mennonite” and the answer was “Methodist”.
@toddgrotenhuis I’m a PK of an Episcopalian minister, so now I’m an old hand at being agnostic. That’s what you get about 90% of the time with us PKs :)
@toddgrotenhuis It’s funny to think how _un_respectable Methodism originally was, how down-market and unfashionably emotional. (Dissenters! Ech!) Time erodes the bristles off of nearly everything, it seems. They still have the hymns, though. Charles Wesley knew what he was about there.