You can now get a Masters in 'Magic and Occult studies' - here's why it's good and bad for Christians

With the news that you can now study 'Magic and Occult' at Exeter University, writer Belle Tindall muses on the positives and negatives for believers of Jesus.

In 2024, Exeter University will to offer a Masters degree in "Magic and Occult Studies". That’s right, a little slice of Hogwarts right there in the West Country. That’s a joke. Obviously. And a pretty unfair one too, considering this university course is built on modules like decolonisation, feminism, palaeography, archaeological theory, medieval history and folklore. So, rest assured, it’s not all Quidditch and ‘wingardium leviosa’ (although if you don’t know what those words mean, this course probably isn’t for you). It’s a mighty looking Masters.