David Bowie’s “Heroes,” the Soundtrack of a Spiritual Libertine
“Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist.”
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Despising the Holidays: When Christians Led the ‘War on Christmas’
In the 1640s, during the years of the English civil wars, a popular broadsheet with…
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How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment
It has now been almost two weeks since the press conference in Guizhou, China announcing that a…
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America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?
In a quiet part of the London borough of Southwark, on a street running parallel to…
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“Religion, O Diabolic”: Lamenting Religious Violence, Then and Now
Paris has known religious violence before. Over the course of two days in August of 1572, agents…
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Why We Should Keep the Devil in Halloween
In early thirteenth-century Belgium a young woman named Christina (who would later have “Mirabilis” or “The…
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Let There Be Light: Handwritten Draft of King James Bible Reveals Secrets of Its Creation
The King James Bible may well be the greatest work of literature ever written by committee—and…
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Will This Relic Change Our Whole View of Early American History?
It’s a news story that contains the ingredients of a paperback thriller, the sort of…
Read MoreWho Are the Waldensians and Why Did the Pope Ask for Their Forgiveness?
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones/Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold……
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Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment
Polls are good, but a crystal ball might be better.
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