Shadows in Eden

How do we learn about our own past? If we are interested enough, we can read books, or attend lectures and study courses, or – as I have j...

This month is traditionally the time in which the [1] ‘wise men from the east’ brought their gifts to the new-born [2] Jesus. Scripture is...

A single omnipotent god is an oddity. To be sure, three of the world’s current major religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – have su...

North Africa, sometime in the first half of the 6th-century. A contingent of horsemen clatters westward across the ochre wastes, the hoove...

What must be going through their minds? Dazed with defeat, dragged from their refuge and brought before the leader who had conquered them,...