by Miguel Conner | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog posts
The title of this article makes a bold claim, in a crowded and competitive field of feminine divinities that includes the Virgin Mary, Isis, Venus, and Ishtar, among many others. Yet a stronger case for supremacy can be made for a seemingly obscure figure from an...
by Miguel Conner | May 15, 2018 | Blog posts
Gnosticism doesn’t matter. Gnosticism is irrelevant to today’s issues. The Gnostics are just long-dead mystic-anarchists who got crushed by more organized movements. Who cares about Gnostic thought? And so forth. I get these themes often in comment sections on my...
by Miguel Conner | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog posts
Robert Price is an American theologian and writer. He has taught philosophy and religion at the collegiate level and is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and is the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of...
by Miguel Conner | Sep 12, 2017 | Blog posts
By Joseph Armetta David Bowie died on January 10, two days after his 69th birthday. Two days prior he left us with a “parting gift” as described by co-producer Tony Visconti, his final album Blackstar. A video of the title track was also released. The video of...
by Miguel Conner | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog posts
Being persecuted is a badge of honor for many religions, just as feeling persecuted is so intoxicating many of today’s sociopolitical movements. Victimhood paradoxically seems empowering, liberating, even divine — although much of the time it’s a diabolical grab for...
