The vanity of evil
A new book reveals the true moral ugliness of the Cambridge Five
All Old Strange Things
Reflections on my life as a historian and insights into my research on some of the stranger byways of Europe's religious history and folklore...
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Solving psalters
Determining the provenance of a medieval liturgical manuscript – with not much to go on!
‘Ipmiláhčči is everywhere’
Lived Christianity among the Sámi
Christianity and the problem of the gods
What to do with dead deities?
In the shadow of Cottingley
Reading Bernard Sleigh’s ‘The Gates of Horn’
Scepticaemia
On historical scepticism gone wrong
Please try to miss the woo train
On maintaining agnosticism in the face of high strangeness
Why can’t we talk about numinous experiences?
If the title of this post seems a little ambiguous, it is intentionally so – for it is about why we so often find ourselves incapable of talking about experiences of the numinous, but it is also about the social conventions and pressures that so often hinder such conversations.
Terminally online
On the strangeness of death in cyberspace
Layers and layers of Lithuanians
On the composition of Britain's Lithuanian community
Building the City of Mercy
On the World Apostolic Congress on Mercy - and why it matters