Antipodes

As far as big news goes, this is really Big News. For the first time in centuries, the tomb of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem is being opened. ...

The heavenly creature in this 17th-century Indian miniature is known as a Buraq (Arabic term for lightning ): This is the kind of win...

Throughout my life, attitudes towards the Jesus phenomenon have been evolving constantly. As a child, I was led to believe that Je...

Dogs, in the context of conventional religions, have often had a hard time. An antiquated version of Revelations , on the very last page of ...

When I was a ten-year-old child in South Grafton, an older boy named Ervin McNally , living on a farm on the other side of the road, gave us...

There are unusual things in my archives. This old card presents a hybrid "tree" composed of six tiny wildflowers from sites in the...

When referring to religious beliefs, people generally use adjectives such as " ancient ", " sacred ", " profound ...

All four evangelists agree on the name of the place where Jesus was crucified. It was called Golgotha , which is a Hebrew term meaning the ...

In the Holy City of Jerusalem , there have often been nasty conflicts between various lovable and charitable Christian neighbors who happen ...

The word "innocence", incorporating the Latin verb nocere (to harm), means "doing no harm". It's a far stronger not...

I return to the fascinating subject of the work of Simcha Jacobovici concerning a tomb at Talpiot, to the south of Jerusalem, that containe...

For Nancy and Natacha Many people persist in believing that any two places on the planet could be made to resemble each other, provided that...