In 2001, Paulist Press published as part of its "Classics of Western Spirituality" series a volume of Abraham Miguel Cardozo: Selected Writings, translated by me and with an introduction that provided the first biography of Cardozo since 1707, the year after his death. Cardozo (1627-1706) was a … [Read more...]
“Close Encounters” – the UFO, the Dreams, the River
She was 13 when she, her brother, and a neighbor boy were overflown at close range by a flying triangle. She was 16 when the UFO appeared in her dreams, and drew her and her mother together before it drove them apart. Her name is Bella Clarke and she's a forensic investigator, a woman devoted to … [Read more...]
“The October Man”; or, Why I’m Taking a Break From Blogging
"When Scott Lerner returned from Israel, he stayed in a YMCA. He did not particularly want to stay in a YMCA, but he had no good alternative. ... Once he had friends in this town, but that was three years ago. In between had come the war, in between had come the oil embargo. He did not know how … [Read more...]
Messiah of Transgression – Thoughts on Sabbatai Zevi (Part 2)
(This is the conclusion of a two-part series. For the first part, click here.) To say that the Sabbatai Zevi messianic movement of the 17th century was a personality cult would be an understatement. It was surely a great deal more than that--just what, historians are still debating--but … [Read more...]
Messiah of Transgression – Thoughts on Sabbatai Zevi (Part 1)
"Tell me, dunce: are you quite certain you will have a blessed afterlife for believing, without any sign or miracle, in a man insane? Who perpetrated, moreover, one lawless act after another? In Izmir, for example, he spoke the sacred Name of God in the city streets; he taught the rabble and the … [Read more...]
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