Aida Alami The New Imams Muslim religious leaders in the US need to navigate the demands of a secularizing, pluralistic, and Islamophobic country. Several new institutions are emerging to train them. James Gleick The Parrot in the Machine “Chatbot ‘writing’ has a bland, regurgitated quality. Textures are […]
Posted on July 16, 2025 by winter oak by W.D. James In this series we have been exploring how in his Apology, Plato presents his mentor Socrates as a new sort of hero. Heroes fight monsters and previously we looked at who the monsters in this case were: […]
Charlotte Greenfield and Ali Sawafta 14.07.2025 • 21:07 Christian leaders have accused Israeli settlers of attacking sacred sites in the West Bank, in violence that one said was forcing some to consider quitting the occupied territory. The Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III – visiting the Christian […]
Rev. Chuck Baldwin Published: Thursday, July 10, 2025 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) The good news is that tons of people—especially under the age of 50—are awakening to the hellish barbarism being committed by […]
winter oak Read on blog or Reader Gnosticism and the universal mother By winter oak on July 11, 2025 by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) “The birthing of humans by the Earth is a universally widespread belief. In numerous languages, we are said to be ‘born of the […]
Watch the full show: http://www.kimiversenshow.com The Young Turks revealed that Muslims believe Jesus (Isa) will return to save humanity, challenging the media’s push to hate them and the “Judeo-Christian” narrative. Christianity views Jesus as the divine Son of God and Savior, Islam sees him as a prophet who’ll […]
The rise, fame, life of luxury and controversy of America’s wealthiest pastor, Kenneth Copeland and Kenneth Copeland Ministries. Download Toon Blast for free via this link or QR code and receive 3 hours of unlimited lives and 100 free coins: https://tinyurl.com/NOTTHEGOODGIRL9 Chapters: 00:25:43 Ken, Elvis, & Jesus 06:41:57 […]
Kulak Jun 24, 2025 One of the reoccurring critiques and challenges I get from Christians and others regarding Paganism is the accusation that I don’t “Really” believe in the Pagan Gods… that I believe or “believe” only as some calculated political/philosophical expedient or aesthetic choice and that […]
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A Review of Drink Your Future: Recursive Freedom in the Cybernetic Age by Keith Preston It is rare these days to encounter a work of political theory that feels not only urgent but uncanny—so prescient in diagnosing the drift of late capitalism, and yet so generous in its […]
Professor Orlando Reade joins Chris Hedges to discuss his book, “What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost,” to examine the epic poem’s influence in the four centuries since its publication on revolutionary thinkers, and uses the poem to analyze the moral grey area that […]
By Rev. Chuck Baldwin Published: Thursday, May 29, 2025 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) The title of today’s column is the same as the title of my homily last Sunday, May 25, 2025. On […]
Most people today are not insane — they’re just living in a completely different moral and intellectual universe. In this monologue, Shahid Bolsen explains why so much of what you see online, in society, and even within the Muslim community feels so fundamentally *off*. It’s not just disagreement […]
Or at least raising a family while being happy and sane. Kryptogal (Kate, if you like) May 24, 2025 Yes, this is an AI image because I didn’t want to use real LDS people without permission. But this looks EXACTLY like what is honestly the total norm and […]
Join Derek Lambert in this deeply personal and powerful episode of MythVision Podcast, where he openly shares his journey from escaping Christian cults to now leaving the online atheist community he once embraced. Derek courageously addresses the controversies surrounding his close friend and mentor, Dr. Robert M. Price, […]
Rev. Chuck Baldwin Published: Thursday, May 22, 2025 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) Many of us pastors/teachers/professors/scholars in Evangelical Protestantism have long understood that Joel Osteen’s Prosperity Gospel is nothing short of heresy. Over […]
Theology against power always finds the Jew May 17, 2025 You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? — Jay-Z, “The Story of O.J.” (2017) Why are there so many White billionaires? Colonialism and slavery, obviously. Why are there so many Jewish billionaires? If […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Ana Maria was a nine-year-old girl from a little town called Chiclayo, Peru in 2007 when the Catholic Church robbed her of her childhood. She didn’t even see it coming. A beloved friar known popularly as Father Lute […]
We finally have a counter-balance to the moral values of Trump. In Rome. Andrew Sullivan May 16, 2025 (Getty Images) There is already a debate about the new Pope and where he fits into American politics. Is he right or left? Did he diss JD Vance? Will he […]
An invitation to join our imaginal al-Andalus Kevin Barrett May 15, 2025 Cross-posted from Al-Andalus Tribune and Al-Andalus Tribune Substack I saw her not with these eyes of clay, But with inner gaze born of love’s own ray. Al-Andalus—shimmering face of the Real, Unfolding where only the heart […]
MAY 9, 2025 Blowing Smoke Pope Leo XIV Sent an Unmistakable Signal About His Commitment to Social Justice → This week, the world, our editors included, was left rapt and waiting while the papal conclave got underway. Names like Pizzaballa and Zuppi were thrown around by cardinals from […]
NATIONAL REVIEW MAY 09, 2025 ◼ The Catholic Church has come full circle, from a pope born under Caesar Augustus to one born under Mayor Daley. ◼ The 267th pope of the Catholic Church is a Chicago-born Augustinian, though he is, practically speaking, an adopted son of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Another Pope has dropped dead, only this time it’s the left who seems to be all busted up over it. Don’t get me wrong, I guess I get it. On the surface, Francis did seem like a pretty […]
Ted Grimsrud – The anarchistic appeal of the Bible I would say that I got politicized in the mid-1970s, about the time I finished college. I grew up paying attention to the news. My dad was a high school social studies teacher, so keeping up on current affairs […]
Introductory Note Mr Bickley has received this article from Samuel Waveru, who says he is from Kenya. Mr Bickley’s first inclination was not to publish it, as is both irrelevant to the work of the Libertarian Alliance and inflammatory in tone. However, I have suggested that it is […]
Hello my dear friends! Oh my goodness, it feels like forever since I’ve written on here! My whole website has strayed out of time and space for a few weeks, as I have been doing a lot of rebirthing and reinventing.. as well as some domain swapping (literally […]
Alexander Raynor Apr 29, 2025 Alexander Raynor examines how Belgian philosopher Antoine Dresse is renewing political realism for the challenges of the 21st century. Niccolò Machiavelli Who Is Antoine Dresse, aka Ego Non? Born in 1996 in Liège, Belgium, Antoine Dresse pursued philosophical studies in Brussels. During his […]
And yes, love is the right word. Andrew Sullivan Apr 25, 2025 ∙ Paid Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 2008 travels on the subway in Buenos Aires. (Pablo Leguizamon/AP) “Preach the Gospel always. If necessary, with words,” – attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi. “Every man and every […]
NATIONAL REVIEW APRIL 25, 2025 ◼ The vice president should visit Putin next. ◼ We pray for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis, the first pope to take the name of the beloved saint from Assisi, the first Jesuit pope, and the first pope from […]
April 23, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, This week, the Harvard-Trump showdown has escalated. Harvard has announced it will sue the administration on the grounds that the federal funds […]
View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I build my Church. And the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.” Like most promises, this one holds less than meets the eye. If Catholics are right, it’s a […]
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 21, 2025 Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Pope Francis has died after using his Easter Sunday address to call for peace in Gaza. I don’t know who the cardinals will pick […]
Dear Friend, A blessed Easter to you from all of us at Word on Fire! Pope St. John Paul II once said, “We are an Easter people, and Alleluia is our song.” He was stressing that Easter is not a single day of exaltation in the life of […]
What needs to die in your life so you can start anew? Kirsten Powers Apr 20, 2025 ∙ Paid Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ today, believing he was crucified, died, buried, and rose again to atone for the sins of the world. Christianity […]
View Online Version Specializing in Archaeology, History, Astrotheology, Mythology, and Religion Acharya S – The Legacy Happy Easter, Here are some articles on Easter by Acharya: Moses, the Promised Land and Easter Easter: The Resurrection of Spring Is Easter Christian or Pagan? I wanted to remind […]
Wendy Doniger’s article from the April 10 issue of The New York Review, about the millennia-long relationship humans have with horses, appears thirty-one years after her first essay for us, about the history of idolatry. Though she is by training an Indologist, in “The Rise and Fall of Warhorses” she draws […]
Posted on April 18, 2025 by winter oak by W.D. James In light of our reflections thus far, ‘humanism’ takes on a new significance. Previously, humanism indicated viewing the world from the perspective of human needs, human values, and human nature. It still does, but the very existence […]
Troy Southgate Apr 17, 2025 WHEN the old state is replaced by a new state, Machiavelli tells us, it is often a result of people wishing to better themselves through force of arms and then realising to their horror that they have, unwittingly, ushered in something far worse. […]
Troy Southgate Apr 16, 2025 MACHIAVELLI has little interest in discussing republics and sets out to confine his discussion to principalities alone. Power is easier to maintain in a principality, he says, due to the hereditary factors that have already provided the groundwork for what must remain an […]
Raleigh Adams – April 16, 2025 O’Connor’s fiction does not offer sentimental portraits of faith—it tests faith. Read more From Postliberalism to Preliberalism: A Review of The Church Against the State Michial Farmer – April 15, 2025 Next time we’re drinking bourbon together, I look forward to telling […]
Troy Southgate Apr 14, 2025 MY new book, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FRITZ: E. F. SCHUMACHER AND THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY, is now in stock. The book is 150 pages in length and costs just 23 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. The PayPal address is […]
I was raised to be a Christian Zionist, believing that the statehood of Israel was worth any cost. And for people who weren’t raised in the Evangelical Christian church, the depth of this belief system might be hard to understand. Have you ever heard of the rapture or […]
Troy Southgate Apr 14, 2025 IT is now time to turn our attention to the work of Niccolò Machiavelli, placing special emphasis on Frederick II’s own analysis of each individual section and offering a few thoughts of my own. Machiavelli begins by dedicating his work to Lorenzo di […]
Troy Southgate Apr 13, 2025 CURIOUSLY, discussion of Anti-Machiavel is often omitted from those works dealing with the life and times of Frederick the Great and many of his biographers prefer to dwell upon his family background and various military campaigns. The same holds true for many of […]
Troy Southgate Apr 12, 2025 THE famous Hohenzollern dynasty, from which Frederick II was descended, had begun in Swabia, but its most famous son and longest-reigning monarch was born in Berlin on January 24th, 1712. His parents were King Frederick Wilhelm I (1688-1740) and the Queen Consort, Sophia […]
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 13, 2025 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The US is so spiritually bankrupt that there are literally tens of millions of Americans who support Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza because they think God wants them to. How gross is […]
Is Confucianism a cause or a consequence of Chinese psychology? Apr 09, 2025 Written by David Sun. I never thought I’d be involved in science. I assumed you needed a lab coat and years of certification. My strange and accidental journey into science began on a hike in […]
Arktos Journal Apr 10, 2025 NEW FROM ARKTOS J. R. Sommer — The New Colossus: Heidegger and the Will-to-Machine Will is all. It looms as the enduring buzz beneath life’s fluctuations. Generation after generation, man imagines his noon and midnight are the first — but will is the […]
“These stunning translations of Master Rumi, at once gustatory and spiritual, cut the gloom of our existential doings. Imperative now, as ever, to know this beauty and love.” —Anne Waldman WATER Rumi Translated from the Persian by Haleh Liza Gafori Water expands on Gold, Haleh Liza Gafori’s inspired and widely praised translation […]
by Alexander Raynor Alexander Raynor Apr 11, 2025 Alexander Raynor reviews European Apostasy: The Role of Religion in the European New Right by Pawel Bielawski. In European Apostasy, Pawel Bielawski delivers a meticulously researched, intellectually rigorous, and refreshingly honest study of the ideological foundations of the Nouvelle Droite […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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