Category Archives: Religion & Spirituality

Religion and spirituality is a very personal experience for us all. Personal experience of any kind is always a welcome addition to this category, which covers a wide spectrum from Christianity to Wicca and much more.

Luminous Mysteries

The Luminous Mysteries teach us about the mission and ministry of Jesus Christ. We look at the five Luminous Mysteries and the origins of the Sacraments.

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Introduction to the Bible part 3

This article follows on from Introduction to the Bible part 2 and offers a very brief preview of the books of the Bible. THE OLD TESTAMENT Genesis 1 – 11 In the Book of Genesis, we start with the creation [...]

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Introduction to the Bible part 2

This article follows on from Introduction to the Bible and briefly looks at how we got the Bible Due to the fragile nature of the material upon which the early books of the Bible were copied, we do not have [...]

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Introduction to the New Testament

This is the third in our Bible study series, deliberately intended to be concise and brief to stimulate further study. Compared to about 1000 years of writing period for the Old Testament, the New Testament has a period of about [...]

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Introduction to the Old Testament

This is the second in our Bible study series, deliberately intended to be concise and brief to stimulate further study. As we saw in our last article, the Bible is actually a collection of books compiled by various people over [...]

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Introduction to the Bible

This introduction to the Bible will be the first in a series of articles looking at the Bible and will include some Bible study. The Bible series will be deliberately concise and will attempt to shed some light on the [...]

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Improving Prayer

There are many ways to pray such as using prayer beads, formulated prayers and other specific devotions. While these methods are wonderful ways to experience the power of prayer, one can lose the heart of prayer if you are not [...]

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What is the Rosary?

The Rosary is a set of prayer beads used in the Catholic church. The word comes from the Latin ‘rosarium’ meaning rose garden. The beads are used in devotion to keep track of the prayers that are said that make [...]

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Using Energy Symbols

Energy symbols could literally be anything; from a familiar advertising logo to a unique and highly personal sigil that one has created for a specific purpose. Energy symbols do not actually contain energy, rather they trigger an energetic response in [...]

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Psychic Divination

I am using the term psychic divination here to differentiate from divination using cards, pendulums and so on. Ultimately, all divination is psychic but this article will discuss simple psychic practices that involve only the mind. Please refer to previous articles [...]

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