Myths, Legends, Religion, and Faith: The Green Man

Here in the UK we are finally entering Spring as I write this post where the plants are coming back to life. An image that you will find across the UK, although particularly strongly in England, is that of the Green Man. A floral motif there has been a lot of debate about the Green

Myths, Legends, and Faith: Creation Stories

Cultures throughout history have wondered how they got here. From the first recorded stories to our current efforts to find the origins of the Big Bang humans have always wanted to know how we began. As we begin 2024 it is a chance to look at how humans have told our origins throughout the millennia.

Myths, Legends, and Faith: The Unicorn

For the last eight years I have lived in Scotland whose national animal is the unicorn. While now depicted as a pure being, a horse with a solitary horn on its head, the history of the unicorn has depicted it in so many ways. One-horned deer or horses representing purity and strength come from legends

World History: The Reformation

Martin Luther Earlier this year the 500th anniversary of one of the most important events in European and religious history. The Protestant Reformation was not the first schism in the history of Christianity (when we looked at the Byzantine Empire we briefly looked at an earlier schism) but it greatly changed history. Most of Europe became