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…
Burn It Because…
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,…
Government as God
In discussing the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20), the first commandment’s “no other gods” can be glossed over, as if we’re all thinking, Oh, no worries. We don’t do THAT! But…
If Being an Alien Gives Purpose…
A TV series titled True Believers (Vice channel) was about several cults. One episode featured a self-help guru named Teal Swan, who leads a group informally called the Teal Tribe…
Minister of Loneliness
It was the summer of 2021. I hadn’t picked up on the news that Japan’s prime minister had appointed a Minister of Loneliness. (Apparently the UK had done that a…