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The Georgia Guidestones, "American Stonehenge"
Posted to Freaky Phenomena

The so-called "American Stonehenge" was built in 1979, when a mysterious person going by the name of "R. C. Christian" (which was possibly a reference to Rosicrucianism) hired a...Read More

The Aurochs: Bull Of Myth and Legend
Posted to Weird Animal Report

The aurochs was a powerful and enormous beast, the progenitor of our domestic cattle.  It transfixed humanity across the globe with its power and grace, and features large in...Read More

"My Life in Orange: Growing Up With the Guru" by Tim Guest
Posted to Memoir Book Club

I grew up near the Oregon border in Washington state; one of the biggest controversies that surfaced in my early years was the take-over of Antelope, Oregon by the Bhagwan Shree...Read More

Religion Class Causes Stir in Secular School
Posted to God Report

How would you feel if your child went to his third grade, secular classroom one day and was instructed that he was going to attend a religious class without your permission? A...Read More

Clearing Up The Misconceptions
Posted to The Secret Diary of Barack Obama

traditional Kaabuist robesEver since I ran for President, a lot of false rumors and misconceptions about me and my family have floated around the water coolers, media outlets and...Read More

When I get that Feelin' I need Spiritual Healin'
Posted to Spirituality in the 21st Century

Have you ever got that "sinking" feeling - for no reason? You know, the feeling that there is something wrong with you or the world and it seems like you just can't seem to shake...Read More

Eat, Pray, Love – Women in Charge of Their Lives
Posted to Female Talk

Women have always been thought of as “the weaker sex." Now the world is finally becoming aware that women are no longer weak and are also taking charge of their lives. In the book...Read More

David Icke's Reptilians
Posted to Freaky Phenomena

 David Icke is a fascinating figure.  He began his career as a sports commentator for the BBC, and a Green Party spokesman.  Then after a fateful encounter with a...Read More

Manna, Although Maybe Not From Heaven
Posted to Freaky Phenomena

I had always heard the phrase "it's like manna from heaven" to denote "a good thing falling into your lap at random."  And "this tastes like manna," meaning "really delicious...Read More

Your Cross May Be in Vain
Posted to God Report

What if I told you that the cross that many Christians like to wear around their necks—as well as bumper stickers, tattoos, wall art, and whatnot—may have nothing to do with...Read More

TWOFR: The Welcome Wagon x Tunng
Posted to Folk Music Talk

The Welcome Wagon Welcome to the Welcome Wagon (Asthamtic Kitty, 2008) Made up primarily of Reverend Thomas Vito Aiuto and his wife Monique amongst various collaborators like...Read More

A Brief Look at Women's Roles in the Bible and What it Means for Women Today- Part II
Posted to Spirituality in the 21st Century

In part one of this article we looked at several examples of women in the Bible to see that women were often given positions of authority and considered prophets just as their...Read More

A Brief Look at Women's Roles in the Bible and What it Means for Women Today- Part I
Posted to Spirituality in the 21st Century

One of the questions that often arise for the church in the modern age is that of a woman's role in the church. In some societies women were given virtually no roles at all, where...Read More

Shir Hodu: Jewish Song from Bombay of the '30s
Posted to Alternative Music Talk

Thinking of places sporting huge Jewish populations, one most likely doesn’t immediately settle upon India as a destination for the people in diaspora. It is though. And over the...Read More

Maus: Part Four
Posted to Comicade

By telling his story as both a direct account of the Holocaust and as a personal narrative of a Jewish family in 1980's New York, Art Spiegelman provided an example of how the...Read More

Maus: Part Three
Posted to Comicade

In the first half of And Here My Troubles Began, the second trade paperback compilation of Art Spiegelman's Maus comic strip, Art depicts himself in the mid 1980's when the first...Read More

Maus: Part Two
Posted to Comicade

A lot of Holocaust survivor stories come down to a few good snap decisions and a lot of luck. So many people escaped death at the hands of the Nazis because they just happened to...Read More

Maus: Part One
Posted to Comicade

In the modern Jewish community, there is often talk of what will happen when there are no more living Holocaust survivors. Will those stories be lost? Will the world forget the...Read More

The Talmud of Homosexuality
Posted to That Gay Blog

From one very narrow and simplistic perspective, the Old Testament is clear cut on its stance concerning homosexuality. Leviticus 20:13 says, in so many words, that sexual...Read More
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