It’s Passover time again. Which means it’s time, if you’re Jewish and observe the traditions, for that archaic, baffling, weirdly compelling ceremony called the Seder. For those who don’t know the terminology: the Seder is the ritual meal for Passover eve, performed the first evening of Passover … [Read more...]
They Knew Too Much …
Barker, Gray. They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. Jung, C.G. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. Scully, Frank. Behind the Flying Saucers. Those were the three books under the subject heading “Flying Saucers” in the card catalog—remember card catalogs?—of the public … [Read more...]
The God Who Isn’t and Is
Some thirty years ago, one of my students at UNC complained that I was like all the profs in the Religious Studies Department. "They'll never tell you what they believe about God!" I thought it over and decided he had a point. So I tried to come up with a clear, straightforward answer I could … [Read more...]
UFOs–A Myth
(This post originally appeared on my website last spring. Now that the site's been redesigned, I'm using it to inaugurate my new blog. New posts will appear here each Tuesday from now on.) Back during my teen-age UFO investigator days, Harvard astrophysicist Donald H. Menzel published a book … [Read more...]
