Many Christians find it hard to show compassion for people who embrace this new outlook. Maybe they think that people must be stupid to adopt such a view. Yet most leading New Agers are highly intelligent people.
It goes without saying that Christians have a responsibility to get to grips with this new worldview and to show as much love to New Agers as they would to any other person whom they desire to come to a knowledge of the truth. Charles Strohmer's books can help us all.
Charles himself was involved in the New Age world for nearly eight years (1969-1976) and demonstrates a great empathy with his ultimate target audience. One of the outstanding features of his writings is warmth of tone. Indeed, his books are unusually strong on two fronts: understanding of the subject matter, and compassion for those trapped in the occult minefield.
What Your Horoscope Doesn't Tell You
By Charles Strohmer
Word Books. 152 pages. £3.25
ISBN 0 85009 235 3
Charles's first book was What Your Horoscope Doesn't Tell You. In 1983, there were virtually no books or pamphlets presenting the gospel suitable for a Christian to give to an astrologer.
That year, after the publication of my booklet The Tarot: Your Questions Answered, Mike Costello of Diasozo Trust, always a man of vision, promptly asked me to write something on astrology. I replied that the best person for such a task would be a converted astrologer. Unknown to me, at that very time, Charles Strohmer was actually in the very process of writing his book, What Your Horoscope Doesn't Tell You, eventually published by Tyndale House Publishers of Wheaton, Illinois, in 1988.
