In cleaning out files, this piece surfaced—created years before I’d done much writing about sacred objects. I’d totally forgotten about both this Joan of Arc embarrassment and the cat-food recall.…
Paws to Worship
Same Old, Same Old
Certain ideas in the area of theology seem newly discovered (“we now know …”). Sometimes they’re billed as if no one was smart enough before now to figure things out.…
What’s Up with Stoicism?
A friend who asked about Stoicism (April 2024) had been reading up—and seemed intrigued. Little did I know there were numerous books out on the subject! It seems impossible to…
Burn It Because…
Burning is what the new Christians in Ephesus did with the heaps of occult objects they’d accumulated in their years of paganism. The burning was presumably to completely disavow and…
Hindus Invented Meditation?
[I’m sharing here an e-mail letter I’d written to Pray.com in April 2023. You’ll soon see why. My subject line said, “trying to help/sent in love.” As of January 2024,…