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In December 2024, I watched this video about how to make a realistic vegan turkey: And there was nothing else I wanted to make for Christmas 2025. Edgy Veg has their full recipe here, but I mutilated it a bit to reduce complexity and scale, and because I am not an influencer making vegan turkey […] The post Vegan Turkey Christmas Recipe appeared first on SarahMcCulloch.com | With Strength and…
Originally posted to Facebook in September 2025, but I keep going back to reread it and get excited again, so thought I’d save it for posterity. Lightly edited, mostly to add hyperlinks. In 2007, aged 16, I went on a school trip to Rome, which involved a day trip to Herculaneum, a Roman seaside town […] The post On the Herculaneum Society 21st Anniversary Conference 2025 appeared first on…
I have published a book! Across Sacred Thresholds: A OneSpirit Anthology is now available to buy from all good bookstores, as long as they are Amazon. A couple of years ago, I submitted a piece to a planned anthology of interfaith ministers to showcase the breadth of our ministry and the work that we do. […] The post Across Sacred Thresholds: A OneSpirit Anthology appeared first on…
This was originally written as an indignant Amazon review and it is not my usual custom to post negative reviews to my website, but once my furious typing reached 1700 words, I thought I’d better save it for posterity. I am a solemnly professed Benedict XVI nerd, and I bought Gerry O’Connor’s Subdued Fires: An […] The post Subdued Fires: An Intimate Portrait of Pope Benedict XVI – Review appeared…
Please note that Daniel Ladinsky produced several books of “translations” of Hafiz, a 14th century Persian Sufi poet, but scholars of Hafiz concluded that he has essentially written his own poetry and just said they were translations of Hafiz. This does not, I feel, undermine the beauty of his work, but it certainly made it […] The post The Ear that Was Sold to A Fish – Daniel Ladinsky appeared…
Two years ago, I had covid for the third time. I have never once had a positive test, but I’m fairly sure I am simply incompetent at taking them. The symptoms were unmistakable each time. The first time I caught covid, in March 2023 when nobody knew what the symptoms were and lateral flow tests […] The post How I Got Rid of My Long Covid Fatigue in Four Days appeared first on SarahMcCulloch.com |…
Darren Carvill is now known to the world for serial fraud and embezzlement with multiple convictions and is now serving a three year prison sentence for fraud. He’s ruined himself sufficiently over his career that I don’t think he counts as a private individual anymore and I no longer have to respect the privacy of […] The post The Trials of Darren Carvill/Medhurst, Or, How My Maths Teacher Keeps…
I asked ChatGPT for a hot grape punch drink recipe for a Bonfire Night I was holding as a I hate mulled wine but love the concept and wanted something similar everyone could drink, as we had children, nursing mothers and drivers in the crew. It gave me one and we fiddled with the ingredients […] The post Hot Non-Alcoholic Punch Recipe appeared first on SarahMcCulloch.com | With Strength and Spirit…
Edward VI, King of England (1537-1553) was the only legitimate son of Henry VIII, who broke away from the Catholic Church in order to obtain a divorce from his wife after twenty years of marriage had produced only one daughter, later Mary I. Henry was always a deeply religious man and despite launching the English […] The post A Small Treatise Against the Primacy of the Pope by Edward VI (FULL…
Originally published in The Pickle at Vashti Media on 23rd February, 2023. The goblins of Hogwarts Legacy. Credit: Avalanche Software The release earlier this month of Hogwarts Legacy, the new video game set in the Harry Potter universe, has generated a flurry of online debate regarding the ethics of buying a game based on the work of a […] The post Hogwarts Legacy – A legacy of anti-semitism…