Brian Griffith.

 by Brian Griffith When the medieval Roman Church forced all married priests to divorce their wives in 1074, this banishment of women sent a message to which the popular mind recoiled. Where the church ruled sexual love a depravity to be repressed, the public turned with growing appetite to love minstrels and legends of heroic knights and ladies. The church still … [Read more...] about Medieval Legends of Romance and Anti-Romance.

by Brian GriffithThere's a big protest that's been blocking University Avenue in Toronto all day, and, I think, through the night, concerning the ethnic war in Sri Lanka. I visited Sri Lanka in 1984, and we went to the shrine of the Buddha's tooth in Candy. The people in Colombo were of course mainly Buddhists, and I expected it must be a peaceful country. … [Read more...] about The Bus Station in Sri Lanka

by Brian Griffith“Mama” Benedetta Ndolo leads a village women’s group in the Iveti hills of Machakos district in Kenya. From the top of the hill in her village you can see for miles to the northwest, over the dusty countryside stretching towards Somalia. For a whole afternoon Mama Ndolo took me all around her village, showing off her group’s various … [Read more...] about Mama Ndolo’s Latrine

by Brian GriffithThe Na, or Moso are a cultural community of about 40,000, who live inYunnan province, China, and have drawn a lot of recent attention for their traditions of sexual life. Some claim they represent an all but vanished female-centered age, and others think they're just slightly ahead of their time. In 1989, Dr. Cai Hua got to know people in 5 Na villages, and … [Read more...] about NA LOVE LIFE: The Famous Furtive Visit.

by Brian Griffith(from his upcoming book CORRECTING JESUS:  TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF CHANGING THE STORY...) In coming to colonial North America, ordinary immigrants left behind a world where stifling constraints seemed God given, and entered one where God seemed to will no limits. For example, ordinary people in England had for centuries been forbidden to enter forests … [Read more...] about THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH