The Siege of Acre was two years long and a major event in the history of the Crusades. Although started independently by Guy of Lusignan in his role as King of Jerusalem against Saladin, it became a…

In 1956, war broke out in the Middle East. Britain and France had long owned the Suez Canal, and relied on it for much of their oil, but Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser had nationalized it.…

This book (James, 2014) offers a philosophical typology of the asshole — not to insult, but to classify in the tradition of Aristotle and the biological sciences. A genuine asshole has three defining…

Is arguing online about high Christology a frutiful activity?

In Western art and Christian tradition, there’s a recurring theme centered on a 3rd - 4th century Egyptian hermit named Anthony the Great, considered one of the founders of monasticism. According to…

March 22, 2026 By Kristin Berkey-Abbott John 11: 1-45 In the book of John, Jesus performs a series of signs and wonders, all of them miracles to show that he is the Messiah. He controlled the…

i cant forget the mutilated herms and glitter-ruining the sleeping streets his point-and-shot defection from a dream but i never saw such a beautiful city as when standing vigil on the battlefield…

"Odysseus himself was offered immortality by the nymph Calypso—and refused it. He chose instead to return to his wife Penelope, a mortal woman who would age. He chose to return to a finite life…

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Three intact wooden storage barrels and a large wood rammer from the 17th century have been unearthed in the medieval center of Skien, Norway. They were covered in moist soil and trash fill which…

✦ Wheel of Fortune | Tarot Card Comparative Analysis ✦ I decided to compare some cards from different tarot decks and see how the art, symbolism, and interpretation in the guidebook shapes the…

“The first time I was ever confronted by myself in print was one Sunday morning (please don't append an editorial note here, stating just how many years ago it was) when I opened the Sunday Journal…

It is less than two weeks until Pesach, so it is time to talk about about unleavened bread, called chametz. Luckily, it comes up in today’s daf.מנחות ע,במנא הני מילי אמר ריש לקיש אתיא לחם לחם ממצה…

It's necessary to work out a pure moral philosophy that lacks any empirical contributions. It must be pure reason, universal in scope, applicable without conditions. Kant is implying there exists an…

A newly rediscovered medieval text suggests that doubts about the Shroud of Turin were not a product of modern science, but were already clearly articulated at the moment of its emergence. A…

I am sharing today TimeMap.org: an atlas of regions, rulers, people, and battles throughout history. Thoroughly enjoyable to swipe through, especially for connoisseurs of the map game genre. Hat tip…

The most dangerous internal contradiction any civilization can have isn't inequality or political conflict per se — it's the loss of the capacity to imagine and attempt its own transformation. There…

People consistently say they don’t do what they believe is right regarding pollution and depletion because it won’t change the system. I point out that independent of what anyone else…

We have all recently heard that if a piece of writing has been created using AI, then apparently it is likely that it uses em dash punctuation frequently. This is of course very unfortunate for those…

The sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule.

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I’ve now read my second novel by Gaito Gazdanov, История одного путешествия [The story of a journey], and he’s starting to come a bit more into focus — when you’ve only read…

Diverting briefly from my blog cycle about my recent book Finding Lights in a Dark Age, here I’m going to continue my polite discussion with Tom Murphy about the human condition past, present…

Sex and Dualism According to classical dualism, what we call a person consists of two separate substances, a mind and a body, the latter material and extended, the former immaterial and unextended.…

Last Wednesday night at my church’s Lent speaker series, the speaker used G. A. Studdert Kennedy’s The Suffering God to anchor his talk. In fact, he read it twice, at the start and end. The next…

Sex and God There has always been the feeling that there is some sort of tension between sex and God, as if sex were not quite his thing. He turns a blind eye to it, even though he is supposed to…

CHORUS: Flagrant genae rubentes, pallor fugat ruborem. nullum uagante forma seruat diu colorem. huc fert pedes et illuc, ut tigris orba natis cursu furente lustrat Gangeticum nemus. Frenare nescit…

A work of speculative fiction grounded in historical research and Lean-Agile practice. All team members, company names, and ticket IDs are invented. Benjamin Franklin is not. “In this world…

The post Where the pretty = dumb stereotype comes from. appeared first on Indexed.

My uncle Henry Kaiser was born in 1911 and died in the late 1980s after a long career as a labor attorney. He was the third of his 9 siblings to be born in the United States, not Ukraine, and the…

A half-plate tintype photograph of an even earlier folk art portrait of a young woman. We might place the portrait to 1825 or 1830, I'm going to say the tintype was taken thirty or forty years later.…

shisasan:ALTNovember 14, 1905 Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: a love story in letters (1897-1926)

In this twist on the proclamation of good news, rough grace can be found in overlooked objects and the fragile dignity of the everyday rituals. The post Ashtray Gospel appeared first on Salvation…

Being and Time Martin Heidegger Introduction: The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being Chapter One. The Necessity, Structure, and Priority of the Question of the Meaning of Being § 2.…

[!tldr] TL;DR Derrida introduced Differance (notice the a instead of e ) as a concept of creating differences over time. It is temporal. While TL;DR s are good in the short term and nice to know, and…

Though he read scholarship seriously and was eventually appointed a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, he never studied at university himself and was aware of the scholarly failings of some…

The British Newspaper Archive ( www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk ) has passed 101,000 pages, now sitting at 101,001,747 pages. The recent releases over the last 30 days are almost exclusively Irish,…

Highland Archive ( https://www.highlifehighland.com/archives/highland-archive-centre ) has released its 250th Learn with Lorna lecture online on YouTube. This lecture, with archivist Lorna…

For a record number of Americans in this ever more secular era, their real religion is politics, their faith is their political ideology, and their church is their political party. This seems…

The widely-referenced “stochastic parrots” paper from five years ago is no out of date. In it, Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, et al. argue that LLMs remix patterns in text without genuine…

Upon learning of the death of his lifelong friend Michele Besso, Einstein wrote … Nun ist er mir auch mit dem Abschied von dieser sonderbaren Welt ein wenig vorausgegangen. Dies bedeutet nichts.…

A brief little wondering out-loud about church buildings and their sanctuaries in America.

We look at a strange, divisive and forgotten weapon that was banned in the USA but tolerated in Great Britain.

lingthusiasm:Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land among some morphemesFrom ‘Micro to macro - The levels of language’, where we took advantage of the aptly numbered 101th episode to get…

My latest piece in America Magazine lays bare the extent to which US government policy seems to be going in outright opposition to decades of Catholic teaching—particularly on climate, war, and civil…

This is a book review inspired by the Gazette's book club . I wanted to get into reading philosophy for a while, looked around a bit, searched recommendations, but all that planning doesn't work if…

FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2026 What Yevtushenko said: When we drop in at the medical mission, we treat it as a reading experience. (There tends to be a lot of sitting around.) Today, we turned to the book we…

This series of articles chronicles the history, both real and pseudo, behind Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. Rennes-le-Château enjoyed its first watershed moment as a…

Jim stole the light “Some are born to sweet delight” from Blake. One of my favorite Doors’ songs.