Ancient Christian Magic is an academic source text, essentially an “encyclopedic” source of academic translations of real ancient sources with additional analysis by the listed scholars. The goal of the text is not for you to perform these spells yourself (good luck finding the required ingredients, like crocodile liver), but rather to use for study reference.

That being said, this book is great and I pull it off my shelf and read it to people more than any other scholarly text I own. Something about Christianity and Magic gets people riled up, especially when they find out it mostly just so people can have better sex!

Big Joel has done a number of videos critiquing PragerU: PragerU PragerU Kids

He’s got more videos critiquing specific PragerU content as well, all from a couple of years ago.

Traffic can be absolutely awful in NZ. Largely because there are a lot of natural choke points which don’t allow for wide roadways, and the investment in large road infrastructure has not kept up with the need. Auckland traffic is abysmal, as it is essentially one large north-south column with a few trunks.

Christchurch isn’t bad, but the highways through the city have a lot of lights and with the traffic load it can take a long time to get places. It’s a lot like Winnipeg, it doesn’t have freeways to get you around quick without stopping constantly.