September 2021

Through Jerry bowyer, Contributor | Thursday, September 30, 2021Bibles are inside a church pew stand. | American Bible Society / Douglass NottageIt is the week of the forbidden book. It is sponsored by the American Library Association.…

Next week marks the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street on October 4, 1936, when riots broke out between anti-fascists and Black Shirts. What does the Torah say about turning 75 and the fight against fascism? Abraham, our…

Historian Amanda Foreman searches the past for the origins of today's world. Read the previous columns here.What the hell? For Plato, it was Tartarus, the lowest level of Hades where those who had…

Mike Flanagan seems to be able to do it all. After having been creator, screenwriter, director, executive producer - and even editor for a few episodes - of the two The Haunting…

The weekly report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new philosophy book reviews…Sep New: ?? Amended:German philosophy of the 18th century before Kant, by Corey Dyck and Brigitte Sassen.…

You may have heard of the lack of donors to the American Red Cross over the past two years. The COVID-19 pandemic has prevented many people from giving life and it is not improving.Today, the Red Cross is sounding the alarm again. Agency…

Believe it or not, 23-year-old rapper Jack Harlow starts his day with green tea; "hottest", to be precise. Once he's taken the caffeine appropriately and is ready to welcome the world, it's time to go out and see Los Angeles, but he…

Cartoon of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, an evangelical anti-abortion Christian supporter. She plans to change her state's abortion law to be as draconian as Texas' new law, which bans abortions after just six weeks gestation, even…

One of my favorite authors is the philosopher Dallas Willard. He once said that "meaning is one of the greatest needs of human life, one of the deepest hunger pangs, and perhaps in the final analysis, the most basic need in the realm of…

On September 17, 2021, Iran became a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). It is an extraordinary achievement and a new beginning for Iran sanctioned by the United States and the West. On this occasion,…