Spiritual Episcopal Church

06/01/2026

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-spiritualist-who-warned-lincoln-was-also-booths-drinking-buddy-180954317/

What did Charles Colchester know and when did he know it?

06/01/2026

https://www.nickfarrell.it/standing-up-to-blavatskys-racism/

One of the Prime movers and shakers of 19/20th-century occultism was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and her Theosophical movement. It is hard to find an occult current which was not influenced by her or her followers. These names include Golden Dawn leaders, Dion Fortune, Rudolf Steiner, Alice A. Bailey,...

05/24/2026

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04/25/2026

04/15/2026

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04/15/2026

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The town of Stratford, Connecticut is no stranger to haunted history. But talk with locals, and a name will inevitably pop up in conversations — a woman from...

04/09/2026

Around 500 AD, just 24 years after the fall in 476, Europe did not suddenly become empty or chaotic overnight. Instead, it was in a transitional phase where Roman structures were fading while new kingdoms were taking shape.

In the former western territories, power had shifted to Germanic rulers. Italy was controlled by Theodoric the Great, who ruled the Ostrogothic Kingdom and deliberately preserved many Roman systems like administration, law, and infrastructure. Gaul, which is modern France, was dominated by the Frankish Kingdom under Clovis I, who had recently converted to Christianity, strengthening ties with the Roman Church. In Spain, the Visigothic Kingdom held power, while North Africa was ruled by the Vandal Kingdom.

Life for ordinary people still looked surprisingly Roman in many ways. Cities like Rome had shrunk in population, but roads, aqueducts, and buildings still stood, even if they were no longer maintained at the same level. Latin was still widely spoken, evolving into early Romance languages. Roman law and taxation systems lingered, especially under rulers who wanted stability.

At the same time, long distance trade had declined compared to the height of the Empire, and local economies became more important. Wealth and security were increasingly tied to land and local rulers rather than a distant imperial government. The old Roman elite still existed but often had to cooperate with new Germanic rulers.

The Christian Church had become one of the most stable and influential institutions across Europe. Bishops and clergy often filled the gaps left by Roman administration, helping govern cities and maintain social order.

Meanwhile, the eastern half of the empire, the Byzantine Empire, was still strong and wealthy, centered on Constantinople. From their perspective, the west had not truly “ended” but had simply fallen under the control of breakaway rulers.

So Europe in 500 AD was not a sudden “dark age” collapse, but a patchwork of new kingdoms built on Roman foundations, with old and new systems coexisting in an uneasy balance.

03/22/2026

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02/22/2026

Use code garrisonhayes at https://incogni.com/garrisonhayes to get an exclusive 60% off.Did the Bible predict Christian nationalism's rise and fall? In this ...