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False Testimony?   Josephus Debates about the existence of Jesus go back many centuries and one of the most commonly used pieces...

A Note on Nietzsche and Protestant Christianity  Friedrich Nietzsche   The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche has had over ...

Freeing the Mind Part I The emergence of Religious Toleration in the West  Book Cover   One of the most important features ...

Revenge Fantasy The Left Behind Books Part I The Background – Hating America First Book of the Left Behind series Almost 20 ye...

True Faith The French Wars of Religion Part 1 - Origins Jean Calvin Little known today, at least among the non-residents of ...

Among the Barbarians Medieval Doctor "Treating" Patient In the years after the First Crusade the Muslims of the Mi...

Noel Nativity Scene Perhaps one of the most evocative of modern Christmas Carols is Chris de Burgh’s A Spaceman Came Travelling , from...

“Christian” Imperial Charity  Portia disguised as young Lawyer Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice is as per usual as ...

Saints An Irreverent Short Note St. Christopher Carrying the Christ Child I was brought up a Catholic, but now I’m a lapsed or ha...

Jesus the Little Known A Note Icon of Jesus Jesus of Nazareth will undoubtedly be considered by many people has one of them most influe...

The Trial of Jesus Jesus on Trial before Pilate On this Easter weekend it is perhaps germane to discuss probably the most significant tri...

Out The Window I   Defenestration is one of those words that describe something you wouldn’t think as a word for it. Like for example a...

The Syllabus of Errors Pius IX   In 1864 Pope Pius IX published as an appendix to his Papal Encyclical Quanta Cura a Syllabus l...