IT’S DIFFICULT for parents to fight the flood of images that surround us at this time of year. Anthropologist Dr. Judd Burton, author of Interview With the Giant: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Nephilim, joins us for a discussion of Halloween and why the celebration of the supernatural is so popular in a nominally Christian culture.Continue Reading

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AN 18-YEAR-OLD woman published a story nearly 200 years ago that contains a warning for our day, one that becomes more relevant with each passing day. Dr. Judd Burton joins us to discuss the parallels between Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the present-day transhumanist movement.Continue Reading

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THE APOSTLE Paul wrote that our struggle is not against flesh and blood—that is, fellow humans. So why are monsters that feast on human flesh and blood so popular? Dr. Judd Burton joins us to discuss our culture’s fascination with zombies and vampires.Continue Reading

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ALMOST EXACTLY 205 years ago, famed explorer Meriwether Lewis died at a small inn southwest of Nashville, Tennessee, officially by his own hand. But the Lewis family has never accepted the official explanation. History professor Dr. Judd Burton speculates as to what might have been in Lewis’ journals that could have led to his death.Continue Reading

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