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Well, I've seen some Christians get into quite a twitch about the whole Harry Potter issues. Although I can understand the objection to some degree the fact remains that Western society is increasingly secular. Certainly, the roots of the objection to Harry Potter go much wider afield. For...

Now here's quite a tale - apparently the dog escaped it's home, was apparently hit by a car - then a police officer who was called decided to put the dog out of it's misery and shot it. Then the "body" was dragged off and put into cold storage - only to be rediscovered a few hours later alive...

Been doing a lot of surfing tonight, and thought that the following site had a lot of useful information on Eastern thought and followings. The articles are only brief but quite extensive - more so than I'm planning to have here for some time: Seekers Guide - Eastern Religions, Masters and...

Just found this resource on the internet and thought it may prove both useful and interesting: Encyclopaedia of the Celts

MEPs vote to ban stem cell research Is this an example of secular ethics in action - or is it symptomatic of a political rise of Christianity in Europe. After all, the Christian right is quite powerful in Germany. Are they the main force behind this drive?

Chinese guests barred from film festival Hysteria or not? SARS has a low death rate, has killed around 100 people worldwide. Malaria has a higher death rate, will kill around 3 million people this year. Is the whole issue of SARS nothing more than "diseases of the rich"?

In case you're visiting here from overthere, during a general upgrade of the Chronicles site, I have inadvertently crippled the forum. Now in touch with tech support. I sincerely hope that the forum is recoverable. :- EDIT: All better now! http://www.chronicles-network.net/forum/index.php

Well, the yard and garden we have is tiny - there's no real room for growing veg or fruit, but we will try with a little this year. However, bought a mushroom growing kit weeks ago and finally we had 4 whopping big mushrooms growing in the box this morning. :) So I sauted them for tea. Not a...

Found this list on another site, which refers to books mentioned in the Bible but which no trace exists. Thought it may be of interest: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There are between eighteen to twenty-four books mentioned in the Bible, but...

Found this as I was mining my files of material from about the net. Got this from a messageboard - so I thought I'd paste it here in case of any interest to anyone: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gospel of Mark ? In scholarly circles, Mark...

Something I thought was a bit strange while originally looking at different world religions... Lao Zi did not write the Tao-Te Ching - it was compiled by later followers, Kong Zi did not write the Analechts of Confucius - it was compiled by later followers, Buddha did not write the Pali...

I freely admit I've experienced brief yet very vivid and lucid visions of the distant past in a waking state - but never enough to work out an identity, let alone the geographical location or time period. Sometimes there are clues, but rarely enough to construct anything useful. Dreams ... had...

Someone raised a question with me the other day, regarding Trinitarian Christian belief - From that perspective, how much did Jesus actually know he was God? If he was God, then was he wholly aware that he was God, only partially aware, or not at all aware? And would this be a constant...

I have met quite a few people in life who claimed to be spiritual … even somewhat enlightened – yet these people I know have the very nerve to regard themselves as superior also – and even state that those who are not as enlightened as they have no particular right of life. This is Spiritual...

Here's an interesting article which goes into great detail about the evolution of Christian texts into the current canon that we have now.

Just some research notes: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gods and Myths of the Ancient World - Mary Barnett, Grange Books, ISBN 1 84013 081 4 (annoyingly, no text references) Man made from clay figures: p. 153 - reference made...

When reading the work on Roman history by Livy (Titus Livius) I made some notes... ...because it’s completely fascinating to observe how the Romans, circa 200 BC, viewed the world. The Roman view: The world exists in a form of harmony, but only when the gods are happy. Reality is fragile...

TACITUS - The Histories (can be found online at http://www.novaroma.org/camenaeum/tacitus.htm A Roman perspective of Jeiwsh history appears in book 5: Some say that the Jews were fugitives from the island of Crete, who settled on the nearest coast of Africa about the time when Saturn was...

Potential relevant info for the exploration of apossible wider cultural context in religious belief systems of the time: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - HERODOTUS - The Histories (can be found online at http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/herodotus/ ) Bk 2 sections 36 and...

Something copied from another site, just in case it's of interest: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - According to Teillhard, there exists, beyond the laws of physics, another fundamental principle of organization of the universe, another dimension: the...