by Charles Cameron | Jun 30, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — religions taking other religions apart, stone by stone, image by image, song by song ] . Some recently converted Jehovah’s Witnesses appear to have destroyed the altars of indigenous Otomi people in Mexico, an anthopologist has...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 14, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on a variety of other perspectives ] . Once again, my point is that there’s a whole lot of going on going on, and it’s worth getting a wide-angle view.. which means multiple perspectives, including those not your own: Good...
by zen | Aug 16, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy and Blood Meridian first came to my attention back in 2000 when noted literary critic, Yale professor Harold Bloom was interviewed on...
by Pete Souza | Jul 24, 2015 | Monitor
Today, President Obama visits Kenya — the 50th country he has visited during his Administration. It’s also my 50th country traveling with the President. To mark the occasion, as I did when the President visited his 50th state, I chose one photograph from each country...
by Charles Cameron | May 15, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on dark spirituality, magic and apocalyptic ] . I’ve received a review copy of Tony Kail’s Narco-Cults, and by chance when I first opened it, my eye fell on a miracle story. ** Here, in a clip from a narcocorrido video, is an officer of...