Tag: Religion

The Lost Gospel [Reading Challenge 2025]

The Lost Gospel The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot by Herbert Krosney National Geographic, 2006 [ #5 Breaking Ground: A book about exploration or discovery, fiction or nonfiction. ] The lost Gospel of Judas is a piece of New Testament Gnosticism that was discovered in the 1970s but took a very roundabout route …

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Worldbuilding Wednesday 3/15/23: Cults

Cults can be amusing, or terrifying. The quintet of fellows above date from the early 1970s, members of a West Coast cult called The Source that even had its own rock group, of which they might be the members (or perhaps Doug Henning wannabees?) Note their similarity in costume to pictures of Aleister Crowley done …

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