For French-British anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics, religion is a product of imagination. Moreover, the reason why humans possess the concept of religion and practice it is because ‘they’re the only creatures to have evolved imagination.’ This capacity for imagination which began to develop 40-50,000 years ago, or during the final [...]

Two criminals are seen hanging on their respective crosses on either side of Jesus, dying along with him. These two have committed serious crimes and committed grave misdeeds. They are generally called thieves. In the other Gospels, they are called “robber, highwayman, bandit” as found in Matthew 27:38 and Mark 15:27, for example. These are [...]

Hope is a total imperative. There’s no way to go but up, as the hallowed cliché goes, especially when you’re down. Since fortunes go round like a wheel, hope is what recurs as often, periodical, and regular as the shifting of night into day. Hope is the nourishment of the soul as food is to [...]