For all the talk of progress and becoming 'more evolved', it's as if we've found ourselves back in the Middle Ages, or even the Dark Ages. So many people harbor superstitions based on mindless obsessions. But it's worse in a way because, at least in the Old-Old Days, people worshiped God and Jesus, not the... Read More

It is remarkable that complaints about Jewish behavior have been so consistent through the centuries, in very different cultural and social eras. Twelve centuries ago, between 823 and 828, the actual date is not precisely known, Saint Agobard (769 – 840), bishop of Lyon (France), who contributed to making his episcopal city one of the... Read More

St. Adalbert freeing Slavic slaves (source). With the Christianization of Eastern Europe, the trade in fair-skinned women and boys came to an end. The white slave trade played a key role in ending the Dark Ages—this seemingly unending downward spiral that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire. By the 8th century, the elites of... Read More

The Slave Market, painting (c. 1884) by Jean-Léon Gérôme (source) Can Europeans, and European women in particular, become objects of trade? The idea seems laughable, since the term ‘slave trade’ almost always brings Africans to mind. Yet there was a time not so long ago when Europe exported slaves on a large scale. Between 1500... Read More