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March 2023

March 29, 2023
Three Neanderthal teenagers left more than 50 footprints in rain-softened pyroclastic ash and mud about...
March 25, 2023
As a former newspaper editor I understand the barely contained glee of using the word...
March 23, 2023
The divine roles played by angels and the Holy Spirit in the Bible were much...
March 20, 2023
Myths of creation are filled with fantastical characters, surrealistic plot lines and supernatural magic. There...
March 15, 2023
Towards the end of my slim novel of historical fiction, People of the Flow (2019,...
March 11, 2023
On April 22, 1978, a lightning strike hit Jamaica's National Stadium as Bob Marley sang...
March 09, 2023
Contemplative writers and artists across religious traditions have used cloud imagery to describe a personal...
March 04, 2023
During the soul's transitional journey between lifetimes, the circumstantial evidence suggests that spirit travels in...
March 02, 2023
It was February when Brindle was diagnosed with kidney disease and given about six months...

February 2023

February 26, 2023
Across indigenous cultures in rural areas, mythic floods usually came in response to a specific...
February 22, 2023
It will come as no surprise that western scholarship has long overlooked symbols of female...
February 19, 2023
The belief that birds guided souls through the afterlife was shared by ancient and indigenous...
February 16, 2023
Exploring why our most distant ancestors stood up on two feet is the human creation...
February 11, 2023
The Sumerians engraved the myth of the Garden of Eden on clay tablets about 5,000...
February 07, 2023
Hunter-gatherers lived in extremely busy bird migration corridors in Panama 13,000 years ago and in...
February 03, 2023
The ancient and cross-cultural belief that birds contained the souls of ancestors may have played...

January 2023

January 28, 2023
The fossil record and genetic evidence paints a clear picture of where our mysterious road-tripping...
January 25, 2023
It was the day before Thanksgiving 27 years ago and I was the only reporter...
January 24, 2023
It was a Tuesday morning in October 2012 when the IT guy said my e-mail...
January 21, 2023
Reenacting the moment of creation inside the body and mind has long been a cross-cultural...
January 18, 2023
It’s hard to find a more important moment in Earth’s history than the very first...
January 15, 2023
Naturalists of the ancient world once believed the whooper swan was the original ancestor of...
January 12, 2023
An avalanche of scholarly studies in recent decades has yielded enough evidence to make a...
January 09, 2023
It's well accepted that the Irish version of Christianity is more rooted in the natural...
January 05, 2023
It all started in the spring of 2014 during a visit to the 5,200-year-old megalithic...
January 01, 2023
A profound connection between birdsong and human language has been identified by recent linguistic and...

December 2022

December 29, 2022
The three animals appearing most often in ancient human burials over the greatest span of...
December 25, 2022
Ancient and indigenous cultures around the world identified trees with long lifespans and medicinal properties...
December 20, 2022
Long before the advent of Judaism and Christianity, the world tree was a sacred conduit...
December 19, 2022
Each year the sun god Apollo was believed to travel north in a chariot drawn...
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