One of the guys at my table has offered to run “The Hoard of the Dragon Queen” for D&D. I nearly bit his arm off. Recently, given the haphazard nature of the Tikhon fantasy campaign as it lurched from system to system, I’ve been wanting to take a break from GMing at the regular Friday … Read More →
Tag Archives: Truth
“I give you Mr and Mrs Jesus Ben Joseph!”
If you have any form of news media that you regularly watch or read it has been impossible to miss the furore over Harvard scholar, Karen King, publishing and discussing the small piece of codex parchment now generally being called The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife. As with all things in the non-specialist media, the claims … Read More →
Of Runes, Tarot and Ritual Magick
My earlier article, Of Scientism, Christianity, Hypocrisy and Lies, gave a rambling overview of my own early challenges in asking the question, “What is spirituality?” Today I’d like to unpick some of the things that lay behind by own dabblings in the use of the Runes, Tarot and Ritual Magick. Readers may also be surprised … Read More →
Test of Faith: Does Science Threaten Belief In God?
This article reviews the documentary DVD Test of Faith, produced by The Faraday Institute. It comes in the light of my previous articles on ‘Science and Religion‘. While I am usually highly suspicious of Christian-produced films, and the marketing into churches of courses relating to films and books, this one has caught my eye for … Read More →