Iran, Israel, and War in the Middle East
2024-01-29
The Middle East is in turmoil, but trying to understand the conflict in terms of simple geopolitics doesn’t provide good answers.Continue Reading
Iron and Myth 25: Portals
2024-01-22
DO PLACES EXIST where the veil between this world and the next is thinner—namely, portals?Continue Reading
“Saving Democracy” by Killing It
2024-01-15
A SIGNIFICANT PORTION of liberal America apparently feels the only way to “save our democracy” is by disenfranchising tens of millions of voters.Continue Reading
Prophecy and the Israel-Hamas War
2024-01-08
THE WAR between Israel and Hamas began three months ago today. Is this the start of the conflict prophesied in Psalm 83, the Gog-Magog war of Ezekiel 38–39, or something else?Continue Reading
Iron and Myth 24: Tis the Season to Talk About Giants
2023-12-18
Are we “majoring in the minors” by talking about the weird parts of the Bible?Continue Reading
Update on the Amazon ‘Face-Peelers’
2023-12-11
IT’S DEFINITELY one of the strangest stories of 2023: Villagers in a remote region of the Amazon rainforest in Peru have been defending themselves against attackers called pelecaras, which translates into English as “face-peelers.”Continue Reading
Unplugging Babel
2023-12-04
ANCIENT SUMERIANS built a tower of mud brick as a portal to the gods. Today, Babel is more high-tech.Continue Reading
Iron and Myth 23: Nimrod
2023-11-20
ONE OF THE MOST notorious characters in the Bible, and all of history, is a man about which we know almost nothing.Continue Reading
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
2023-11-13
WHAT WE CALL “prepping” our grandparents called “life.” We’ve lost those skills—and the knowledge that your neighbors had your back when things got tough.Continue Reading
Near Death Experiences
2023-11-06
THE THREE big questions of life that have haunted humanity since the beginning of history are still with us today: Where do we come from, why are we here, and what happens when we die?Continue Reading