After his first major book The Unseen Realm went viral and then he gave us ‘Angels’ now we get a full length treatment of demons, Satan, unclean spirits— all things dark and dangerous. I was beginning to feel like I was in a Dan Brown novel (cf. Angels and Demons) there for a while. This study, like his previous ones, is in many ways excellent— it’s well written, very well researched, Mike plays to his strengths which is his detailed... Read more
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It is now beyond reasonable doubt that Tolkien all along intended The Lord of the Rings to be the continuation of the stories we have in the Silmarillion and in larger and more detailed form in the 3 long tales now published in this collection, tales of the elder days or first age of Middle Earth. These tales evolved from about 1919 until the early 1950s, and in some ways it is too bad that Tolkien never completed his final... Read more
Sherlock Holmes used to say ‘the game’s afoot’ to signal that something major was happening in regard to solving crime, and in particular murders. Our recent string of disasters with police using excessive force even to the point of killing unarmed people has put in place lots of complex societal factors such that the ‘game’ really is afoot— racism, sanctioned violence by city officials, the militarization of police forces, peaceful protests infiltrated by looters and other opportunists, and the increasing... Read more
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