History in the bible
When I was little I was taught in school about religion. But it wasn’t all about god and angels and the devil and sin and the soul. We learned about … Continue reading
Three Journeys to the West
Xuanzang was a seventh century AD Buddhist monk from Szechuan in China who made an epic journey across central Asia to India in search of the true words of the … Continue reading
The Myth of Atlantis
Recently I watched an episode in National Geographic’s Is It Real? series, about Atlantis. Two pseudoscientists were interviewed, one who believed that the people of Atlantis were extra terrestrials who … Continue reading
Signs and Wonders
In the first century AD a man was born to a Greek family in the town of Tyana in Anatolia in Turkey, an ancient Hittite city later known as Christopolis … Continue reading
Local heroes
Ned Kelly by Chris Rawlins It seems like every culture has its heroes. They represent qualities each culture values. A look at some heroic figures reveals the values are not … Continue reading
The Tao of Babel
The peoples who lived in the lands between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates from 6,000 years ago were many, Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians; Assyrians, Hittites, and Hurrians from the north; Amorites, … Continue reading
The journey of Odysseus
There are several ways the journey of Odysseus, told by Homer in the Odyssey, can be looked at. Does the poem preserve any details about the period it depicts that … Continue reading
