Forgive me for a personal post here, but such is the state of printed matter these days that it’s rather rare to be able to boast of a book review, let alone a positive one. However, today’s Japan Times carries … Read the rest
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I’ve come across a very curious website, the nature of which I don’t fully understand… Apparently it’s a role-play game of some kind, yet someone’s gone to enormous trouble and written some fascinating stuff.
Take a look for yourself and … Read the rest
Two intriguing links that appeared in my Inbox today, one in prose and the other in photos…
The first is a short article summarising the religious import of the Higgs Boson particle:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-clayton-phd/relationship-between-scie_b_1653976.html
The other is from the wonderful blog … Read the rest
Water immersion
It’s well-known how much religions have in common and how often they replicate each other, but a visit to Ravenna brought home to me how central the notion of purification by water has been in differing cultures.
Brought … Read the rest
What makes Japan so resistant to Christianity? It’s an intriguing question I tried to tackle in my book In Search of Japan’s Hidden Christians… Part of the answer, I believe, has to do with the nature of traditional beliefs … Read the rest
It’s the one-year anniversary of this blog, and I couldn’t have asked for a better year… There have been over 170.000 hits, far more than expected, and the positive feedback has given me the incentive to keep posting and to … Read the rest
An article in the Huffington Post yesterday discussed the latest state of neurological research and spirituality. The end of the article was ‘enlightening’: I always thought Led Zeppelin were onto something!! (For the original article, click here.)
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