The Yardbirds emerged as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s, leaving an indelible mark on music history despite their relatively brief existence. Formed in London in 1963, the band became the launching pad for three of rock’s most legendary guitarists—Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page—while pioneering sounds and techniques that would influence countless musicians in the decades to follow. Throughout their original five-year run, The Yardbirds released five studio albums and achieved significant commercial success with hits like “For Your Love,” “Heart Full of Soul,” “Shapes of Things,” and “Over Under Sideways Down.” Originally a The post Complete List Of The Yardbirds Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

The radicalized political Left has adopted a number of “woke commandments,” according to author Simon Hankinson.   From demonizing borders to the erasure of history and gender, the radical Left has repeatedly rejected common sense, Hankinson asserts in his new book “The Ten Woke Commandments You Must Not Obey.”   A researcher and writer by trade, Hankinson writes that his work centers on “truth,” but “[o]bjective truth is always on the run under communism and dictatorship, but in the past few years, it has been under assault in the free world, too—even in the United States.”   Hankinson, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, begins his work with “The First Commandment: You Shall Have No Borders,” an ideology that was largely put into practice under the Biden administration.   The “no border” ideology has its “origins in sort of international socialism and globalism,” he said.   “If you look at the people who oppose borders, they’re also people who tend to buy into the whole package of other anti-capitalist, anti-Western values, and that’s … captured, unfortunately, a portion of the Democratic Party,” Hankinson continued. “It’s not all of them, but it’s enough to move the needle, and I think they definitely wore the pants in the Biden administration.”   As with so many other Americans, Hankinson says liberals’ ever-further movement to the Left has made him more conservative.   “You know, 30 years ago, I definitely wouldn’t have identified myself as a conservative. I wasn’t much of a political person, really,” he said.   “At some point you wake up and you think, ‘Wait a minute … this gender ideology thing is absolutely insane, and I cannot support anyone who is trying to do this to children and to strip women of these things that they’ve won over generations of hard fighting,’” he said.   Hankinson dedicates two chapters of his book to the gender ideology movement that has swept the nation in recent years.   “I just saw that people’s lives were being ruined. And I have friends whose children have gone through this and who’ve had to make incredibly difficult decisions, and were being lied to—parents who were really trying to do the best for their kids, but were told by doctors and therapists and teachers things that just simply weren’t true,” he said.   With an aim to arm readers with “some facts and some concise arguments,” Hankinson said he hopes the book allows people to “politely engage” with one another across the political aisle.  “We’re very polarized, but ultimately, we do have more in common than we have apart,” he said. “We do have a Constitution [that] I think most people believe is a fundamentally excellent document that binds this country of very diverse people together, and we do all want a good future for our children living together in harmony, rather than polarized and hating each other.”   The post New Book Offers ‘10 Woke Commandments’ Americans Should Disobey   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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At Arizona State University, where I teach, faculty were recently told to “decolonize our curriculum.” On the surface, the directive sounded progressive: Expose power structures, elevate marginalized voices, and promote inclusion. But a closer look revealed something deeper.“Decolonization,” as defined by many academic theorists, has less to do with confronting material exploitation and far more to do with dismantling the Christian worldview itself.Leftists celebrate the new archbishop as a victory for progress. Yet the victory coincides with the collapse of the church that achieved it.In today’s universities, decolonization has become a framework for deconstructing Western civilization — its moral assumptions, its epistemology, and, most of all, its biblical foundations. The movement borrows heavily from Marxism: Everything becomes a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, and redemption comes not through faith but through revolution.Christianity has long condemned greed, injustice, and oppression. It calls for compassion, justice, and humility. The biblical ethic already provides a moral standard against exploitation. What “decolonization” targets, then, is not exploitation itself but the very source of the Christian moral order: creation, sin, redemption, and divine authority. Strip those away, and what’s left is a vacuum quickly filled by ideology — Marxism, postmodernism, or nihilism disguised as liberation. Think Antifa in the ivory tower.The church follows the universityThat same dynamic now defines the Church of England. The recent appointment of Sarah Mullally as archbishop of Canterbury — the first woman ever to hold the title — was heralded as a triumph for “equity” and “representation.” Yet the decision has fractured the Anglican Communion. Churches in Africa and the Global South have declared they will no longer recognize Canterbury’s authority.Their leaders insist the move abandons biblical teaching: The pastoral office, they say, is reserved for men — not as a symbol of domination but as a form of service patterned after the Old Testament priesthood and Christ Himself. Scripture, not patriarchy, defines this calling.The irony is painful. The very church that once sent missionaries to Africa now lectures African believers on theology — in the name of “decolonization.” British progressives who claim to defend the oppressed now reject the self-governing authority of African churches, imposing instead a white, European moral framework they no longer believe in.The logic of ‘liberation’The academic rationale behind this mirrors what I see on campus. In decolonization theory, patriarchy is treated as a system of control, and dismantling it becomes an act of liberation. But the Christian vision of leadership never equated masculinity with power. It defined male pastoral authority as a burden of service, not a privilege.This distinction matters. In pagan antiquity, priestesses wielded ritual power at Delphi and other shrines, while biblical religion defined priesthood in terms of obedience and sacrifice. Christianity’s inheritance of that pattern was countercultural — not oppressive. To erase that distinction under the banner of equality is to mistake service for subjugation and hierarchy for injustice.The irony of ‘progress’Leftists celebrate the new archbishop as a victory for progress. Yet the victory coincides with the collapse of the church that achieved it. Attendance across England has cratered; belief is evaporating. The light they claim to be spreading has gone out.Meanwhile, Christianity burns brightly in the very regions now scolded for their “backwardness.” African churches remain faithful, growing, and theologically vibrant — a continuity stretching back to Augustine of Hippo, the African theologian whose writings shaped European Christianity for a millennium.RELATED: The castration of Christendom Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty ImagesIf decolonization truly sought to redistribute power, it would look to Augustine’s model: a church grounded in scripture, not ideology; global, not provincial; rooted in divine order, not social theory.The lessonWhen my university asks me to “decolonize” my teaching, I ask in return: into what? If the answer is Marx, Freud, or Foucault — the very European thinkers who replaced faith with power analysis — then the process is just another colonization under a different name.But if the goal is to return to the Bible’s vision of creation, fall, redemption, and service under Christ, then by all means, decolonize. Reclaim what ideology stole. Because the alternative is what we now see in England — a church that traded revelation for relevance and ended up preaching nothing at all.Christians should take heed: The light leaving Canterbury won’t stay confined to England.

Halloween may be marketed as a harmless night of costumes and candy — but mental health experts have been warning for decades that the holiday can unleash very real psychological trauma.“We need to understand that Halloween can actually amplify some of the psychiatric disturbances of people who were either victims of satanic ritual abuse or who were just traumatized by the fear and the just depravity that some people like to showcase on Halloween,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey explains.A 1991 Washington Post article documents how Halloween has historically triggered emotional breakdowns, suicidal episodes, and violent behavior among patients suffering from multiple personality disorder (now classified as dissociative identity disorder).Many of those patients linked their trauma to childhood abuse — and in some highly disturbing cases, alleged satanic ritual activity.“Patients with multiple personality disorder (MPD) exhibit bizarre behavior in which personalities with distinct histories and voices — called ‘alters’ — emerge from a ‘host’ personality under the influence of severe stresses. The illness is believed to arise most often as a defense against child abuse that is typically sexual and physically painful,” the article reads.“Of the 12 patients in the hospital today, six are having trouble with memories related to Halloween," said Bruce Leonard, a psychiatrist who treats child abuse victims at the Columbine Psychiatric Center outside Denver, the article continues.In the article, Leonard explained that a former patient of his was flying to Colorado from her home in Michigan to spend Halloween in the hospital, after “physically threatening her psychiatrist in Michigan” for the weeks leading up to it.Another psychiatrist, Bennett G. Braun, told the Washington Post that “patients become increasingly suicidal, increasingly agitated” around Halloween.Five of Braun’s hospitalized patients were “reliving Halloween trauma,” while one of his patients “with a history of satanic cult abuse” was being kept in the hospital until the holiday was over.Another patient of his attempted suicide on Halloween the year prior and claimed to have been a childhood participant in “rites involving human sacrifice.”“About 20% of MPD patients ... claim that their childhood abuse involved organized satanic rites. Although few psychiatrists treating these patients today deny that their patients have a history of child abuse, there is great debate about whether the ‘satanic’ events actually occurred or are fantasy grafted onto recollections of more conventional abuse,” the article reads. “So we don’t actually know if they actually endured satanic ritual abuse or if it had something directly to do with Halloween, although some of them seem to be able to cite specifically what happened to them on Halloween, or if this is a symptom of their psychiatric problems,” Stuckey says.“But I think it’s an interesting phenomenon, and I do think that we should give more weight to presenting very scary, gruesome, morbid things to children before they have the ability to be able to understand it,” she continues.“I don’t think it’s lighthearted to scare children and to present them with things that celebrate death and darkness and fear. I do think that you are setting them up for some kind of trauma. ... And I think we do need to take that seriously,” she adds.Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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