New book from me out later this year! "THE PAGAN REVIVAL: The Roots of Modern British Paganism, 1700-1950" A unique history of the pagan revival told through analysis of contemporary literary, scholarly and journalistic texts. www.equinoxpub.com/projects/pag...

"Astrologers came from the East" A piece for Epiphany on the mysterious Magi in St Matthew's Gospel. Who were they? What do the gifts mean? Is the story true? robindouglas.org/2026/01/05/a...

"Astrologers came from the East" A piece for Epiphany on the mysterious Magi in St Matthew's Gospel. Who were they? What do the gifts mean? Is the story true? robindouglas.org/2026/01/05/a...

🎵 The party's on The spirit's up We're here tonight And that's enough Simply having a

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)

US army chaplains are insufficiently redpilled. I assume "tossing" must mean something different in American.

when a reviewer asks you to cite their work in your revised submission and so you grudgingly insert a footnote but in no way discuss their ideas in your work, so that it’s there and you can’t be dinged for ignoring it, but also you did nothing to address it… this is called a “sightation”

SPIRITUALISM AND TWO CLASSICAL SCHOLARS Or, how an ancient Greek philosopher appeared to a South African academic and the bestselling English translation of the Aeneid was assisted by Virgil's ghost. robindouglas.org/2025/12/16/s...

just a reminder that antisemitism has been a part of Western culture for over a millennia and has a powerful influence on culture, social life, and politics. as with other forms of oppression, like misogyny and racism, open violence is just an explicit expression of more widespread attitudes.

On John Fransham (1730-1810), who seems to have been the first modern pagan revivalist: "he used to walk about with a cat under his arm, which he affirmed possessed a soul, and that cats would be saved rather than human beings"

We are devastated to hear reports of a shooting attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, with multiple fatalities at a Jewish Hanukkah event. The scourges of terrorism and antisemitism are shared, international challenges and need concerted and determined action to defeat them.

🚨 New on my Substack THE ANTICHRIST - A Biblical Puzzle A piece on one of the most enigmatic and notorious characters in Christian thought. religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-antich...

🚨 New on my Substack THE ANTICHRIST - A Biblical Puzzle A piece on one of the most enigmatic and notorious characters in Christian thought. religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-antich...

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

ICYMI When did Britain stop being Christian? Can we put a date on the end of Britain as a Christian country? robindouglas.org/2025/12/09/w...

Very interesting. Not entirely convinced I accept the premise! Whilst the UK may not be a particularly religious country, I think it is still a very Christian country. The framing of society is still very Christian: most of the population are currently observing Advent; the two big festivals are ...

ICYMI When did Britain stop being Christian? Can we put a date on the end of Britain as a Christian country? robindouglas.org/2025/12/09/w...

There remains the problem, in which language was Adam naming the animals? Did he say "חָתוּל", or "cat", or "gatto", or "Katze", or αἴλουρος, or "catus"?🤔 No, not catus, as we needed Saint Jerome to have it translated into Latin However, what was wrong with this Bull guy? Nothing better to think of?🙄

Adam in the Garden of Eden is said to have named all the animals for the first time. Bishop George Bull was enormously impressed with this feat and thought that it could only have been executed with God's help.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of Rev. Gareth Bennett. An Anglican scandal and tragedy from the 1980s. robindouglas.org/2025/09/08/t...

Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of Rev. Gareth Bennett. An Anglican scandal and tragedy from the 1980s. robindouglas.org/2025/09/08/t...

Muscular Christianity. “Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”

A piece on apocalyptic writings - the genre in which people imagine what the end of the world will look like. A time of crisis and degeneracy ends with the intervention of God and a final judgment, with rewards and punishments. These ideas have secular equivalents too....

Romanians are the sons of Rome. The blood of Trajan is in our veins. Our brothers, our sisters, our cousins are hair gelled grifters in the slums of Napoli. The Eternal Mafiosi of Calabria and Sicily So why tf are we obsessed with PhD/CV minutia like we are Germanics loons from the Rhine?

"The Pope who Saw Demons in the Vatican" The last Pope Leo - 13, not 14 - saw a demonic vision one day, in the late nineteenth century. There is a fascinating story behind how this vision passed into Catholic folklore and what uses it was put to. See more here: robindouglas.org/2025/11/27/t...

"The Pope who Saw Demons in the Vatican" The last Pope Leo - 13, not 14 - saw a demonic vision one day, in the late nineteenth century. There is a fascinating story behind how this vision passed into Catholic folklore and what uses it was put to. See more here: robindouglas.org/2025/11/27/t...

Since we’re talking about books and money, I’ll also talk specifically to new occult authors, because I watch new people go through this every single season: your first book might change your life, but almost surely not in the way you think.

Sherlock the cat a big fan of @robincdouglas.bsky.social & @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social 's 'Paganism Persisting'

"If John Henry Newman had been born in 1851 rather than 1801, he would have joined the Golden Dawn. If he had been born in 1881, he would have joined the OTO." Discuss.

It's a good book.

They’re saying from each according to his ability — and I have the best ability, a soldier came up to me and told me, tears in his eyes, she said “you saved America, sir,” she said, cold day, she had these rosy cheeks, unlike Rosie O’Donnell, no ability — to each, to each according to his needs.

🚨 New on my Substack! THE END OF THE WORLD A piece on the weird world of apocalyptic literature People really like to imagine how the world will end religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

🚨 New on my Substack! THE END OF THE WORLD A piece on the weird world of apocalyptic literature People really like to imagine how the world will end religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

For those interested in how Catholic Social Teaching is responding to AI, this in-passing remark of Pope Leo XIV when receiving an audience of actors and film producers is quite striking: "The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what 'works', but art opens up what is possible."

This has to be the funniest @churchtimes.bsky.social headline of the year, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

1763 - an amusingly hyperbolic denunciation of Methodism I have always considered Methodism, taken in the most favourable Light, as the most destructive and dangerous System, to Government and Society, that ever was established:

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

"‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey: Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Way back in '004 @petermanseau.bsky.social & I published a book called Killing the Buddha, for chapter of which we stayed w/ a military coven at a Pagan gathering. It was great. Paganism then was fastest growing affiliation. Good work, Pagans! Bonus points for freaking out Close-Shave Pete.

ICYMI "In order to be saved you must be born again", said the pagan god. I've produced a new translation of Corpus Hermeticum XIII, a text which discusses a transcendent experience of rebirth in an ancient Graeco-Egyptian context. Any comments are welcome.... www.academia.edu/127827312/Co...

Bond is, in fact, the sovereignty goddess of Britain, existing simultaneously as youthful and crone, wooed by successive unsuitable temporary partners until the true sovereign (Judy Dench) reveals herself

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

iirc Robert van Gulik noted that in Chinese culture- and sex manuals- kissing was considered a sexual act, only to be done in private. This led europeans to conclude the Chinese never kissed, and the Chinese to conclude all European women were prostitutes.

Today in 1965, the first British law against racial discrimination was enacted. I've written about what the parliamentary debates tell us about how little we've come in the intervening 60 years. "The First Race Relations Act" pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/the-first-...

In 1666, Pope Alexander VII affirmed that it is a mortal sin to kiss someone "for reason of the carnal and sensual pleasure which arises from the kiss". (Reference: Denzinger, 1140)

My 1st trip to London was in Dec.'79, I was 19: coming from Rome, the presence of people from many countries and 'races' was something that really struck me & my friends Funny fact: one night we decided to go to a disco, following advice of a guide booklet which turned out to be out of date! 1 ->

Today in 1965, the first British law against racial discrimination was enacted. I've written about what the parliamentary debates tell us about how little we've come in the intervening 60 years. "The First Race Relations Act" pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/the-first-...

THE DAY THE BRITISH STATE ABOLISHED HELL Anglicanism is what you get when the English encounter the Catholic doctrines of sin and damnation and think "they can't be talking about us". /1

THE DAY THE BRITISH STATE ABOLISHED HELL Anglicanism is what you get when the English encounter the Catholic doctrines of sin and damnation and think "they can't be talking about us". /1

ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.