Hospitality to strangers who come in peace is one of the oldest human traditions. In the times when we were semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers there was little possibility of accummulating goods so sharin… (View Post)

Happy Christmas! (Not applicable to the citizens of Hiroshima) (View Post)

All the way to modern times, admittedly now only in more traditional societies, it was common for travellers to travel very light and expect to be fed and put up by strangers, in exchange for either … (View Post)

There are some sites where Nativity denial is rampant. (View Post)

There's a lot of CV buffing in the Nativity story. A lot of the story is to set up the birth of Jesus as fulfilling multiple Old Testament prophecies. Indeed there is no evidence that Herod held… (View Post)