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In 1959, Dr Milton Rokeach, a social psychologist, received a research grant to bring together three psychotic, institutionalised patients at Ypsilanti State Hospital in…

September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

Link Last Supper helpings have grown

An unusual study looks at the food portions in artistic depictions of the Last Supper throughout history. The apostles have eaten better and better over the years, scholars say. The…

July 11 2010, 4:46pm | Comments

Link The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when…

In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan. He gathered three psychiatric patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together…

June 12 2010, 9:18am | Comments

Link What did Jesus do? (Reading and Unreading the…

When we meet Jesus of Nazareth at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, almost surely the oldest of the four, he’s a full-grown man. He comes down from Galilee,…

May 19 2010, 3:52am | Comments

Link Jesus Is A Dick

This sort of acting out is typical behavior from somebody whose parents didn't give them enough attention growing up.

April 28 2010, 1:35am | Comments