Noumenal News

Scott Harrison desperately tried to change his sexual orientation in various “ex-gay” ministries for eight years, three of them as a ministry leader in Southern California. Most of his experience with ex-gay groups — Christian organizations that see homosexuality as a choice that can be changed with proper therapy — was with Living Waters and […]

Government and military computer systems in the UK are coming under sustained attack from China and other countries, a major new study gives warning today.
The closely-read annual Virtual Criminology Report, which draws on interviews with senior staff at organisations including the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Nato and the FBI, says that the UK has entered […]

HARRY Potter author JK Rowling was “stunned” when a religious fanatic accosted her in front of her children in the US.
The mum of three has long been a target for American right-wingers, who claim her novels glorify witchcraft and paganism.
Extremist Christian groups called for a boycott after she revealed Dumbledore was gay.
Rowling, 42, has now […]

A woman who claimed that a local nursing home fired her because of her Wiccan beliefs has lost her discrimination lawsuit against the facility.
Janet Brown-Schreiner alleged that Life Care Center of Grandview, a 170-bed adult-care home, terminated her as assistant director of nursing for subacute care after learning of her religion.
In her lawsuit, Brown-Schreiner contended […]

The American Library Association Web site is a bounty of information — especially about books. But the site isn’t just a place for renewals, fees and reviews. Instead it is a gathering of information and facts about books themselves, and the influences they’ve had intellectually and culturally. There is a great quote you see when […]

A Williamson man said he found a satanic ceremony under way when he visited his family?s cemetery on Halloween night.
Tim Thomas stopped by the Stoneking Cemetery, in rural Lucas County, because he said he was fed up with vandalism at the cemetery and routinely makes late-night checks on the grounds.
?There were eight guys like this […]

I once did a column on the origin of Easter.
Easter descended from a Pagan holiday. In that column I made some disparaging remarks about Pagans, which didn’t go over very well with the local Pagans.
Are there local Pagans? Yes there are. Trust me on this one.
Anyway, I apologize again to any and all Pagans for […]

JAMMU - Lamas in the trans-Himalayan Ladakh region are up in arms against the Chinese authorities for having issued a regulation that requires all reincarnations, including that of Dalai Lama, to be approved by the Chinese Government.Asserting that this amounts to interference in the religious matters of the Buddhists and a ploy to undermine Tibetan […]

Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.
“I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ ” the college senior from New York recalled. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, […]

There are a number of highly transgressive technologies on the horizon of development today, which may prove to be the most fundamental challenges ever to the notion of a more stable human nature, and thereby, to what can seen to be “natural” to humankind. Such technologies can be a vehicle for the almost indefinite perpetuation […]