It has more people that all of Europe, more than 27 distinct languages, many different religions and even a big diversity of races. Yet it has held together and is confoundingly stable. Churchill said at the tim
Guru Sahib told them that being Sikhs they should not celebrate the festivals of other religions. To add to Sikhs' entertainment activities, Guru Sahib introduced a new festival and named it Hola MahalIa. The first Hola Mahalia was celebrated on March 4,1683. On this day, Guru Sahib...
The story of children being sacrificed to Molech has haunted me most of my life. As we have grown to cherish life as a wonderful gift of God, it is unimaginable how anyone could intentionally end the life of a child on an altar. In the case of Molech, it was the altar for a false...
I believe there is an important lesson we can learn by looking to the past in the event of the Tower of Babel. While God blessed Noah and told the new inheritors of the earth to “be fruitful and multiply, teem on the earth and multiply in it.” in Gen 9:7, the generation coming ...
I give the original source of each cited story in parentheses in the footnote and list the Tang and Song stories in TPGJ under their original sources in the appendix. (Regarding the citation of juan numbers and page numbers in Chinese texts, Journal of Chinese Religions follows the practice ...
As a Jew, I have never been told that the Exodus was literal. In fact, the rabbi I studied under said specifically that the Exodus was not literal. Multiple times. But the story of the Exodus is a central part of the cultural heritage of being Jewish – and it underlies and informs ...
As a young child I was interested in my friends’ beliefs, religions and traditions and was invited to their churches, temples, mosques and celebrations. I was raised mainstream Protestant, I got “born again” in high school, and then, accompanied by a lot of pain, I lost my religion ...
After a great interval of time he became aware that he was near the lower edge of the snow. Below, down what was now a moon-lit and practicable slope, he saw the dark and broken appearance of rock-strewn turf He struggled to his feet, aching in ...
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which shadows the Autumnal Equinox as Passover follows the Vernal Equinox. While I have no special knowledge of Celtic or Germanic religion and folklore, and while there seem to be a lot of popular stories about such religions that themselves appear to be New Age folklore, there does seem to...