Reading guide
How to Read a Historical Claim with Care
A practical reading guide for separating a historical source, its context and the conclusions drawn from it.
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Reading notes for curious minds.
Practical guides to examining historical claims, religious history and reports of unexplained experiences. Each piece focuses on sources, context and the limits of what the evidence can show.
Research notes
Reading Religion and History: Text, Context and Interpretation
A clear framework for examining religious texts and historical arguments without confusing evidence with interpretation.
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How to Evaluate an Unexplained Account
A measured way to examine first-person reports, document observations and keep uncertainty visible.
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The Council of Nicaea: Separating Myth from Documented History
What the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE actually decided, what it did not decide, and why popular retellings so often get it wrong.
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How the Biblical Canon Took Shape: A Plain-Language Timeline
A short timeline of how Christian communities came to agree on which writings count as scripture, and where the lists still differ today.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls: What They Are and What They Are Not
A clear introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls, why scholars value them and which popular claims go beyond the evidence.
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A Short History of Official UFO Investigations
From Project Sign to the modern UAP office, a factual overview of how governments have studied unidentified aerial reports.
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Understanding the Solar Cycle: The Sun’s 11-Year Rhythm
A beginner’s guide to sunspots, solar maximum and minimum, and what scientists do and do not know about the Sun’s effects on Earth.
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The Sun in Ancient Cultures: Gods, Calendars and Alignments
How civilizations from Egypt to the Andes honored the Sun, tracked it with stone monuments and built it into religion and the calendar.
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Why Phones Click and Buzz: The Technical Explanations
GSM interference, line crosstalk and narrow bandwidth can all produce strange sounds on a call. Here is what each one explains and where the gaps remain.
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The Debbie Jordan Account: Wednesday Calls and Unexplained Sounds
A summary of one of the best-known telephone accounts in UFO literature, with a look at what the sources say and how to weigh them.
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Adrian Dvir: An Engineer Documents Calls He Could Not Trace
How an Israeli computer engineer investigated a series of unexplained calls to his mobile phone, and what his method adds to the story.
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Five Patterns Across Reports of Anomalous Phone Calls
Reports of metallic voices and rhythmic clicks on phone calls share recurring features. Here are five, and how to examine each.
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What Is Gnosticism? A Plain-Language Guide
Gnosticism, gnosis and the gnostic gospels explained: where the word comes from, what the Nag Hammadi texts are and why scholars still debate the term.
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Dead Sea Scrolls: Where to See Them in Person and Online
How the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, what they contain and where you can view them: the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem and the free online digital library.
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UFO vs UAP: What the Official Terms and Investigations Mean
UFO, UAP and the official investigations from Project Blue Book to today: what the terms mean and how to read new UFO news and sighting reports.
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