The furta sacra (or holy theft) of a saint’s bones in the Middle Ages was often viewed as a heroic act of rescuing a saint from people that possess his relics wrongfully. They were gleefully written about…
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Hello persistent and loyal readers! Life has been catching up with me again and I have not been blogging. And for that reason I wrote up a little blurb on some of my thoughts from…
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Wæs ðu hal [1] fellow pilgrims all! This is a quick blog post to apologize for not posting anything for a long time and let the world know that I have not been assassinated by a shadowy…
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This is the last of my Christmas series on some of the good works and wonderful blessings to mankind that are a “side effect” of Jesus’ birth. This series was inspired by “What if Jesus…
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In the days leading up to Christmas I will be posting a series on some of the good works and wonderful blessings to mankind that are a “side effect” of Jesus’ birth. (See the introductory…
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In the days leading up to Christmas I will be posting a series on some of the good works and wonderful blessings to mankind that are a “side effect” of Jesus’ birth. (See the introductory…
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In the days leading up to Christmas I will be posting a series on some of the good works and wonderful blessings to mankind that are a “side effect” of Jesus’ birth. (See the introductory post here.) This…
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In the days leading up to Christmas I will be posting a series on some of the good works and wonderful blessings to mankind that are a “side effect” of Jesus’ birth. (See the introductory…
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“The greatest tragedy of the Christmas holiday each year is not so much its commercialization (gross as that is), but its trivialization. How tragic it is that people have forgotten Him to whom they owe…
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Fundamentalism in the cross and crescent. My most recent novel is “Crescent Tides,” an upcoming alternate history time travel story. As is indicated by its title, the book deals with the Muslim and Christian religions,…
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