The Telegraph’s podcast criticized a 2020 decision by the Supreme Court of Montana that protected the confessional privilege. But it correctly applied the law.
“Call Bethel”: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Sexual Abuse. 4. The Montana Case
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“Call Bethel”: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Sexual Abuse. 3. The Clifford Whitely Case
The Telegraph’s podcast used a 2019 case to claim that the new child protection policies of the Jehovah’s Witnesses are not followed in practice. This is false.
“Call Bethel”: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Sexual Abuse. 2. The Peter Stewart Case
How The Telegraph presented the case of pedophile Peter Stewart is different from how a British judge assessed it.
“Call Bethel”: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Sexual Abuse. 1. A Biased Investigation
The Telegraph’s podcast and series privileged apostate sources and ignored the larger context.
“Hermetic Spirituality and Historical Imagination”: What We Can Learn from Hermes
An epic book by Wouter J. Hanegraaff offers a new interpretation of ancient Hermetic writings—and a revolutionary path both to studying and experiencing spirituality.
A Museum for the Victims of Communism in Washington, D.C.
The Museum inaugurated last month by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation reconstruct the deadliest catastrophe in human history
Sacred and/or Secret, Confession and Other Forms of Religious Secrecy: A Scholarly Discussion
At the European Sociological Association’ RN34 conference, a panel discussed contemporary criticism of secrecy in religion, from the Catholic Church to Scientology
The Rediscovery of the Kakure Kirishitan of Japan
Hidden for two centuries and a half, Kakure Kirishitan, the persecuted Catholics, re-emerged in 1865. Bitter Winter offers the first English translation of Pope Francis’ document celebrating them in 2015.
Abe Shinzo: The Day He Offered a Magic Mirror to the Pope
While we continue assessing the historical significance and the legacy of the assassinated Japanese Prime Minister, his visit to the Vatican in 2014 is worth remembering.
Čiurlionis, Esotericism, and Theosophy. 3. “Theosophical” Symbols
Čiurlionis: the Lithuanian painter’s works include several symbolic references that may be attributed to Theosophical influences, but the relation remains conjectural.