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It’s All Fun and Games Until Odin Gets Eaten by a Wolf

You may have seen the links going around. Certainly I have, though I guess I’m an obvious target. “Vikings of the World Unite: The Apocalypse is Upon Us.” “Viking apocalypse:…

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Human of Steel

How purist fans survive the wait for the new Superman.

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Two Happy Stops Along the Greek Apocalypse

In the middle of the second millennium B.C., a dark cloud of noxious falling ash and a tsunami wave spread across the Mediterranean. It was enough to leave Minoan civilization—that…

Loki from the movie "Thor."

The Trouble with Loki

Watching your gods become action heroes in the movie Thor.

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Gods Must Die to Live

I’ve been meaning to share this for a while; it’s an arresting passage from C. S. Lewis that came to me on a page sent to my by a friend,…

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Only a God Can Save Us?

Peter Kingsley and the dangerous dream of a spiritual elite.

Aristotle gives teaching Alexander the college try.

Truth-ing Mythology

There’s this passage toward the end of the all-important book XII of Aristotle’s Metaphysics that I keep coming back to, one of those bits that reaches out of its antiquity…

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On Armstrong: Metaphorical Amnesia

In reference to Tibor Krausz’s review of The Case for God by Karen Armstrong, James from Washington State writes (he says, at 3 am): The discussion of Ka cialis uk…