Every so often, a sincere question opens a doorway: not to argument, but to understanding. One of the most important questions in the study of early Christianity is this: How do we determine the earliest, most historically grounded understanding of who Jesus was? Historians don’t answer this by starting with later creeds or theological conclusions…
Author: asherunderwood
In 2008, I was a young interdisciplinary graduate student living in New Mexico working on my thesis, trying to make sense of the world through the lens of comparative mythology, Black liberation movements, and preservation of Indigenous memory through oral transmission of knowledge. That summer I wrote a letter to a man whose voice..
Summary: This piece marks the nine-year anniversary of my return to Moyaone — the sacred Piscataway burial grounds — and the passing of my grandmother on November 14, 2016. It continues the work of the Piscataway DNA Project, tracing the Beaven–Brent–Dorsett–Culver lines back to the earliest English–Piscataway alliance in 17th-century Maryland. Drawing on DNA findings,..
TL;DR. In 2014, the groundbreaking Potter study showed Native-American-tagged DNA connecting descendants believed to be from Mary Kittamaquund (or other/unknown Piscataway ancestor) through the Beaven/Brent and Marsham/Queen lines. Over the past decade I have preserved the communications and receipts—including GEDmatch screenshots, cousin emails, and land-record citations—and now leveraged ChatGPT to re/run, analyze, interpret, and archive..
Just before my dad crossed over, I asked him, “What am I going to do if I need your advice or something?” He was very weak but said, “Like your granddaddy Walter told me, we can talk on our spiritual telephone.” Its literally the second to last thing i remember him saying to me. Since..
A story about how we trolled the biggest trollers “Odd Future” with Earl Sweatshirt’s anticipated Return from Samoa!
“Oak Flat is sacred. Its where the Apache peoples’ religion began. Where the covenant between the divine and the human was established. It’s like Mount Sinai, where Christians and Jews believe Moses received a covenant,” – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign On January 12, 2021 the Apache Stronghold, on..
On May 4th, 2009 CNN’s Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen ran a story “When a pandemic isn’t a pandemic”, exposing the World Health Organization for changing the definition on its Web site from a pandemic flu that causes “enormous numbers of deaths and illness” to “when a new influenza virus appears against which the human..
President Trump’s campaign sent Senator Kamala Harris a ticket for Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate reserved for Tupac Shakur, since Sen. Harris (D-Calif.) had recently made a comment that Tupac was “her favorite rapper alive.” “We have left a ticket for Tupac Shakur,” according to Trump’s senior campaign adviser Jason Miller who reportedly told this..
I slid through the ‘ville the other day and stopped at the Courthouse to vlog about why I support PRO Gainesville!! I hope all of my true friends and family from Gainesville, Texas will take the time to have a listen. I am still looking for someone who claims to know their North Texas-Confederate-Gainesville History-..