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Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Sunday, 21 December 2025

Advent 4: Witches, Burning Effigies, Sex and Peaches

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After three Sundays of Christmas trees and decorations let’s skip to the other end of the Twelve Days of Christmas and take a trip to Italy....
Sunday, 2 November 2025

Honouring The Dead

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Here’s something different to my usual Hallowe’en article. Just for a change, here’s my take on Hallowe’en and how today, All Soul’s Day, is...
Sunday, 16 March 2025

80 Gays Around the World: Part 6) Greek Beauties

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Last time on “80 Gays” : 15) Father Markus Furhman (b.1971) became the first openly gay Franciscan “bishop” after ministering in Cologne,...
Sunday, 22 December 2024

Advent 4: Some Basil for the New Year

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Of around a hundred Christmas gift-bringers I have researched over the past four years one of the more well-known is St. Basil (c.330-379) ....
Sunday, 10 December 2023

Advent 2: Lucy Boys

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The participants in a Lucy procession This coming Wednesday is the feast day of St. Lucy, or St. Lucia. In Scandinavia and parts of Italy an...
Sunday, 3 December 2023

Advent 1: The First Christmas Card

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It’s the start of Advent today, and it’s perilously close to Christmas and I haven’t thought about sending any Christmas cards yet. I prefer...
Sunday, 15 October 2023

(Not Quite) 80 Gays Around the World: Part 5) Monks, Monarchs and Myrrh

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Last time on (Not Quite) 80 Gays: The Art Workshop International was founded by 12) Bea Kreloff (1925-2016) and 13) Edith Isaac Rose (1929...
Monday, 7 August 2023

(Not Quite) 80 Gays Around the World: 4) Art in Italy

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Last time on “80 Gays”: Partners 9) Robert Ferro (1941-1988) and 10) Michael Grumley (1942-1988) co-wrote a book about Atlantic, the latt...
Monday, 10 April 2023

The First Queer Evangelist?

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At this Easter time, or Passiontide, as non-English-speaking nations call it, millions of people are thinking about the teachings of Christ ...
Sunday, 28 November 2021

Advent 1: How Jesus Became Santa

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For most of this year I’ve been doing research for a board game based on the world’s many Christmas gift-bringers. There are almost 100 char...
Monday, 21 June 2021

The Controversy of the Lustful Nuns

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Wouldn’t it be nice of historians agreed on everything? Sadly, politics, prejudice and (quite often) personalities get in the way. This has ...