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Prophets and Messiahs, Part 5: Features of Messianic Cults

By Rebecca Bradley • Nov 5, 2012 • 1 comment

No matter how they dress themselves up – saffron dhotis, long white robes, business suits or mufti – organizations built…

Story Time: Tea Leaves

By Rebecca Bradley • Oct 29, 2012 • 3 comments

In honour of Hallowe’en, here is an updated version of the first story I ever sold – way back in 1987,…

Happy Birthday, Creation!

By Rebecca Bradley • Oct 23, 2012 • 3 comments

Yes, morning has broken, and today is the universe’s birthday – though technically it started last night at about 6…

Prophets and Messiahs, Part 4: Cult Personnel

By Rebecca Bradley • Oct 18, 2012 • 2 comments

“Cult” is a loaded word, one with many negative connotations and a few neutral ones.  Consider the variable way the…

1962: Planning for the End of the World

By Rebecca Bradley • Oct 11, 2012 • 5 comments

This weekend sees the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, two weeks in 1962 when the…

Would I Lie?

By Rebecca Bradley • Oct 6, 2012 • 24 comments

The scene: a generic deathbed.  For the purposes of this exercise, you are an atheist.  You are present at this…

PROPHETS AND MESSIAHS, PART 3: Mystery Messiahs

By Rebecca Bradley • Oct 1, 2012 • 3 comments

Playtime! Here are eight mystery messiahs in an early stage of development, between infancy and late teens. All of these…

Story Time: The Ethical Servant

By Rebecca Bradley • Sep 22, 2012 • No comments

  (Matthew 25:14-30)        One day our Master went on a mission to a far country, leaving a sum of…

PROPHETS AND MESSIAHS, PART TWO: Big Men

By Rebecca Bradley • Sep 14, 2012 • 2 comments

     We all knew him.  Some of us were him.  He was not always the smartest, the tallest, or even…

Story time: The Tower of Babble

By Rebecca Bradley • Sep 8, 2012 • 2 comments

     Today’s offering is my take on the iconic Just-So story of the building of the Tower of Babel.  And,…

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About Rebecca

A natural-born atheist with a fundamentalist Christian background, I have spent sixty years so far trying to decide what to be when I grow up. Meantime, I’ve kept myself busy earning a PhD in Archaeology from Cambridge, and working variously as an archaeologist in Egypt and the Sudan, a housewife and mother in Northern Ireland, a technical editor in Kuwait, a desktop publisher and part-time life model in Hong Kong, and a university sessional lecturer in Calgary and Berlin.
At intervals through all this, I have published four novels and numerous short stories - mostly fantasy and horror, but also including a collection of Biblical riffs, from which this blog takes its name. Recently, I returned to my roots in Western Canada, combining writing with raising chickens and vegetables on an acreage in the Kootenays, supervised by many cats.

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