<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Noemoria Journal</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/</link><description>Guides to religious texts, history and practice, alongside essays developing Noemoria’s response.</description><language>en-gb</language><item><title>Finding the Divine through music</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/music-and-the-divine/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/music-and-the-divine/</guid><description>A personal reflection on the resonance between voices and instruments, from quiet passages to swelling choruses, and the feeling of divinity it brings me.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel and Gaza: mourn every life, judge every act</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/israel-and-gaza-mourn-every-life-judge-every-act/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/israel-and-gaza-mourn-every-life-judge-every-act/</guid><description>A Noemorian essay on the history of Israel and Gaza, twelve documented issues examined under one ethical standard, and why grief must never become allegiance.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>When should a new religion limit its founder?</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/when-should-a-new-religion-limit-its-founder/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/when-should-a-new-religion-limit-its-founder/</guid><description>Noemoria must build anti-cult protections from its first day without creating an empty bureaucracy. This is a staged proposal for activating safeguards as community, money, Temples and institutional power emerge.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Accountable power: a promise is not yet a safeguard</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/accountable-power-and-safeguarding/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/accountable-power-and-safeguarding/</guid><description>Official evidence on safeguarding failures in religious settings and the structures Noemoria must build before growth.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Burning Maya books: a people’s record destroyed</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/burning-maya-books/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/burning-maya-books/</guid><description>Diego de Landa’s destruction of Maya books in 1562 and its meaning for Knowledge, Creation and Curiosity.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Consent and coercion: when spiritual care becomes control</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/consent-coercion-and-belonging/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/consent-coercion-and-belonging/</guid><description>Evidence on coercive control and religious or spiritual abuse, and the safeguards Noemoria must build before authority grows.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Does Deuteronomy require a woman to marry her rapist?</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/deuteronomy-22-marry-her-rapist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/deuteronomy-22-marry-her-rapist/</guid><description>The 2011 NIV says rape in Deuteronomy 22:28. This sourced study examines that law alongside Deuteronomy’s violence, coercion and exclusions—and why they must never govern tomorrow.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How cults form—and how Noemoria will resist becoming one</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/how-cults-form/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/how-cults-form/</guid><description>Cults rarely announce control. This sourced study follows how belonging, exceptional authority, closed information and punished departure can create a high-control group—and sets safeguards Noemoria must build.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How did the Christian Devil develop?</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/how-the-christian-devil-developed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/how-the-christian-devil-developed/</guid><description>The serpent in Eden, Job’s accuser, Lucifer and Revelation’s dragon began as different figures. This guide traces how Christian tradition joined them.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Racial exclusion: ancestry is not worth</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/racial-exclusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/racial-exclusion/</guid><description>The Latter-day Saint priesthood and temple restrictions ending in 1978, examined through Individuality and Connection.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Shunning: when belonging becomes pressure</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/shunning/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/shunning/</guid><description>Jehovah’s Witnesses’ stated policy on social contact after removal, and Noemoria’s judgment through Connection and Individuality.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What are the hidden gospels?</title><link>https://noemoria.com/journal/what-are-the-hidden-gospels/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noemoria.com/journal/what-are-the-hidden-gospels/</guid><description>A guide to noncanonical gospels: what survives, when the texts were written, why they differ and why ‘hidden’ does not mean one suppressed original Christianity.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>