Myth-making Isn’t the Right Way to ‘Indigenise’ Our Universities Too often, the noble goal of reconciliation is being co-opted by those seeking to invent fake histories and advance politicized narratives. Terry Moore and Carol Pybus 26 Jun 2022 · 16 min read
The Alchemist Emperor of Prague As the Holy Roman Empire descended into religious conflicts, its Habsburg ruler surrounded himself with magicians, astrologers, and scryers. Martyn Rady 27 May 2022 · 8 min read
Pacifism and Papal Fallibility The Pope is a perverse sort of pacifist, not a man of peace. Brian Stewart 20 May 2022 · 8 min read
Imagine There’s No Svarga: Rediscovering Cārvāka, India’s 2,700-Year-Old Atheistic Tradition The Cārvākas considered only matter—that which could be sensed—to be real. Kushal Mehra 1 May 2022 · 8 min read
How the Christian Bible Became Separated Into ‘Old’ and ’New’ There is no firmly established technical term for the Bible in Judaism. The Hebrew scriptures may simply be referred to as “the Bible,” and the term “Jewish Bible” is sometimes used to distinguish it from the Christian Bible. In Hebrew, terms such as miqra (“scripture”) or kitve haqqodesh (“sacred texts” Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter 12 Mar 2022 · 10 min read
‘We Never Looked Back’ Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant. Ruth R. Wisse 27 Nov 2021 · 15 min read
Human Nature and Political Philosophy As many have pointed out, the radical progressive version of social justice has all the hallmarks of a religion. Bo Winegard / Jonny Anomaly and Bo Winegard 3 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
From Playboy Sports Star to Islamist Politician: The Strange Turn of Imran Khan A further irony is that while Khan presses ahead with entrenching Islam in every nook and cranny of the polity and society, other Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia, are toning down the hard-line version of Islam that they have long promulgated. Rumy Hasan 23 Oct 2021 · 6 min read
A Better Way to Lead Christians Away from Intimate Partner Violence Of those surveyed for the IPV report, 17 percent of self-described Anglicans said they’d experienced IPV in the last 12 months, as compared to 18 percent for the general population. Andrew Judd 18 Oct 2021 · 8 min read
The Faith of Systemic Racism The radicals, always livid, always demanding more, insist that all this is window dressing. A sham. Peter Savodnik 21 Jul 2021 · 7 min read
As a Gay Child in a Christian Cult, I Was Taught to Hate Myself. Then I Joined the Church of Social Justice—and Nothing Changed I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, in a fundamentalist Christian community called The Lamb of God. What began in the mid-1970s as a small group of born-again hippies who played music, prayed together, and proselytized to whoever would listen about Jesus’s unconditional love and mercy, descended Ben Appel 8 Jul 2021 · 42 min read
Huxley, Burroughs, and the Church of Scientology Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman. David S. Wills 6 Jul 2021 · 13 min read
Standing up to the Social-Justice Mobs Within the Jewish Community The white Jewish leaders who attended were told in advance that they were expected to come and listen—to be seen and not heard. David Bernstein 5 Jul 2021 · 12 min read
The Route to Re-Enchantment Moving from Cain and Abel to Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, with some Egyptian myths thrown in, he reconnects his young audience to the religious tradition that was always theirs to inherit, but from which they have been estranged by their modern education. Harrison Pitt 26 Jun 2021 · 9 min read
The Purposeless Society Without faith or nation, there is no greater whole beyond the individual. Sam Ashworth-Hayes 13 Jun 2021 · 9 min read