A common modern conception about Medieval times is that the Catholic Church was in absolute control of the hearts and…
Category Messiahs
I’m going to fast-forward again, right past one of the big kahunas in the long, checkered history of messiahs, Jesus…
In the previous couple of weeks, we looked at two figures from deep history: Sargon the Great of Akkad, and…
Sargon of Akkad was an upstart, a nobody, raised to power by the favour of a goddess—at least, according to the…
[Note: When I began this blog a little over a year ago, I intended to put up a regular series…
As one man’s meat is another man’s poison, so one man’s blasphemy is another man’s reality check. And that goes…
Athan was a hearty, simple lad, as hearty and simple as a bowl of lentils and a…
One of my favourite garage-sale treasures ever is a huge, garish door-stopper of a book that cost me roughly fifteen…
So there’s this guy who likes to fondle women’s breasts and have them stroke his man-parts – pretty normal, right? …
A few weeks ago, I invited Ed Rybicki, a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Cape Town, to write…