I don’t personally dig into all the views and outlooks of all those who “feed” me. I catch gloriously what glows to me, and I tie it back to my Bible and Jesus’ foundations; and it adds vastly to me what my normal Bible teachers never gave me. I suppose we may call this reading dangerous, but I’ve long believed in living dangerously! You might say the same of that Oxford Book of Mystical Verse. Some transcendently glorious things in it; but from others I glean flashes though sometimes (as for instance with Algernon Swinburne who was officially a non-believer) he hasn’t written from a “Christian” point of view.

So, love, I think you must go the way you feel is right. There are those who think it is right to discard any book which is not wholly “sound”, and we may need such to keep us steady – but I go for my reading and feeding to all kinds of pastures; but that is because I have tasted The True Pasture, and can soon discard and detect what does not lead to Jesus.