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Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health Systemic Review and Meta-analysis of Spirituality and Health outcomes "Spirituality and health outcomes yielded 8 evidence synthesis statements that met criteria for panel agreement as supported by evidence categorized as strong, including the...

1 Samuel 28 The Witch of Endor after Saul talks to Samuel's spirit sees Saul weakened and offers him food. But look what she offers: a fattened calf and unleavened bread. This seems like sacrificial food, does it not? After calling on her familiar spirit, she gives this to Saul, who initially...

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-early-israelite-curse-inscription-found-on-mt-ebal-1.10696926 An early 14th century BC lead curse tablet mentioning YHW was found on mount Ebal - the mountain from which Joshua had curses pronounced - in proto-Canaanite script.

This whole Russo-Ukrainian war has brought into focus something that I find needlessly silly. All this fighting about what foreigners call each other and their places. We are told that we must drop the article now, saying Ukraine instead of the Ukraine, and transliterate Kiev as Kyiv. For you...

How 'Saint Javelin' raised over $1m for Ukraine I saw this, and I was wondering about whether this would constitute heresy? I know historically asking weapons to be blessed occurred, usually coupled with concepts of just wars or the like, but this is the Virgin Mary holding a rocket launcher...

In Kamloops, Not One Body Has Been Found ”AFTER SEVEN MONTHS of recrimination and denunciation, where are the remains of the children buried at the Kamloops Indian Residential School? The Canadian Press has just honoured the children of residential schools as the “Person of the Year 2021.” The...

A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea | Scientific Reports ”We present evidence that in ~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley...

Saudi Arabia camel carvings dated to prehistoric era "A series of camel sculptures carved into rock faces in Saudi Arabia are likely to be the oldest large-scale animal reliefs in the world, a study says. When the carvings were first discovered in 2018, researchers estimated they were created...

Israeli archaeologists find biblical name ‘Jerubbaal’ inked on pot from Judges era "Archaeologists digging in southern Israel may have found the name of Jerubbaal, scourge of the Midianites, on a broken fragment of a Judges-era clay pot. The inscription in primitive alphabetic writing from the...

According to the Vulgate, in Numbers 36, the Israelites are supposed to marry within their own tribe - men to take wives from their own tribe, and women to take husbands from it. Specifically Numbers 36: 7-10. Omnes enim viri ducent uxores de tribu et cognatione sua et cunctæ feminæ de eadem...

Recently they have been publishing on the new found significance of the Mustatil structures of North-West Arabia. While not newly discovered, we have suddenly realised they are complex cultic sites with a pedigree going back to 4000 BC - when it was semi-Savannah, as in the Holocene Climactic...

Biden Thanksgiving speech: We're at war with the virus, not each other I see this kind of rhetoric quite frequently nowadays. That we are fighting a war, or that the virus is our enemy. This is called the military metaphor, and is fairly common in Medicine. However, it is actually discouraged...

Genesis 12:6 states that that Abram crossed to Shechem and elon Moreh - the latter nowadays translated as the Oak of Moreh. I was reading the Vulgate, and reaching this verse I found "convallem illustrem" - the famous valley. Seeing Shechem, I was intrigued by this famous valley, but found my...

I noticed recently that my American colleagues say Strong Work, where I would have said Good Work. Praising someone else's contribution not as good, but as strong, seems weird to me. It seems as if not passing a judgement on its correctness, but on how robust it is. It almost feels...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14662035.2020.1823097 Very interesting paper about how the production of flint in paleolithic times at the Horns of Hattin, may have ultimately doomed the Crusaders there in 1187. The slag heaps impacted how the Romans laid out the fields, which thus...

Simple Chinese word sparks racial sensitivity debate So this professor used a Chinese word that is a homophone of a racial slur, and gets suspended for it. The context was in a discussion on language, so this has nothing in any way, shape, or form, to do with the slur. Essentially, we are...

The great shrine of St James at Compostela began in the reign of Alfonso II of Asturias in the early 9th century, when legend says lights were observed and the grave of the saint discovered. The mediaeval tradition unequivocally connected this to James the Apostle, telling a story of how his...

Call to infect volunteers in Covid-19 vaccine hunt I am appalled. One of the most cherished ethical principles in Medicine is supposed to be non-Maleficence, to First Do No Harm. No one doubts that jettisoning your principles, especially this inconvenient one, would greatly accelerate...

In the mediaeval period, the Irish created a famous book of stories called the Invasions of Ireland, which had tales of 6 great takings of Ireland by various mythic peoples like the Firbolg and the Fomorians, before the last bunch, the Milesians, finally arrived. It is a fantastic mix of...

The stories behind the statues targeted in protests Yes, deface Winston Churchill. After all, he was the only thing that stood between the racial Utopia that would have been Nazi Europe and the puppet British state. Really now, these people are just being silly. The same with some of these...