Is God a person? Perhaps you have difficulty with the concept of 'love'? Why should one love one's neighbour? Why shouldn't one just accept there's a God? Interesting questions. But how about is God a person? Does that settle the argument why there's a concept of...See More »
The art that I love - 7 According to James Stourton, biographer of Kenneth Clark, Clark astonished “the crew during the filming of one of the early episodes when he carried the medieval Cross of Lothar up to the altar of Aachen Cathedral, and burst into tears.” It's is a...See More »
The art that I love - 4 Since its completion in 1563, Paolo Veronese's 32-foot-long painting The Wedding Feast at Cana has been a true object of admiration. Firstly, an image with religious resonance for the Benedictine monks of Venice's San Giorgio Maggiore Monastery, on...See More »
The art I love - 2 Altarpiece of the Holy Blood (1499-1505) in the St. Jakobskirche, Rothenburg ob der Tauber It's a glorious masterpiece of woodcarving created by Tilman Riemenschneider. The reliquary is a metal cross with a rock-crystal capsule at the center that...See More »
God, the Holocaust and Etty Hillesum One rather shocking question is why did God let the Holocaust happen. Let me now try to answer the question. Your views may not be mine but atleast we'll have thought about it :) Firstly, while the Holocaust was by no means Christian, the shocking...See More »
God on trial God on Trial is a 2008 television play written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. The play takes place in Auschwitz during World War II. The Jewish prisoners put God on trial in absentia for abandoning the Jewish people. The question is whether God has broken...See More »
Life is a funny old thing Devil worship for a Christian shouldn't be something that one just lets pass by. When a member of ones congregation is upsetting ones worship by introducing non-worship songs in the middle of ones church service, when one experiences them laughing...See More »
Undressing Emmanuelle: A Memoir This Sunday morning I'm returning for another brief but important moment to Sylvia Kristel because she somehow influenced me a lot in her quiet way. Is giving oneself up to the flesh a sin? Well, yes, but not for the obvious reason. She's brutally...See More »
My day is better LeVar Burton. Just back from a trip to a local market place and on this very much beloved site of mine, oh yes, this one, I saw someone else's posting about the Lifetime Achievement Award for LeVar Burton. Him! :-) Yes, he's been around with me, from...See More »
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas It's way too quiet on the book front on here so let me post something on a terrific new book on a true heroine of mine, Simone Weil. Known as the “patron saint of all outsiders”, General De Gaulle called her even insane, she was without a doubt one...See More »
I love Harris tweed Poll (7) See Poll Options I hate summers or staying in warmer climates because I do like my tweed clothes. Anyone else out there who's also so inclined? I know that it's a bit...See More »
Sunday story # 5 : Gary Lineker and the Soul of Mankind The Gary Lineker thing now going on in Britain shows up what's so very wrong with present day society and culture. No, I'm not saying that he was right this week nor that I dislike him, but what the heck is going on today? The Soul of Man Under...See More »
Sunday story # 2 - The three emperors who were cousins Where can one expect God's answer? In the unlikeliness of places. God's voice is there, and one only needs to hear it. More than one century ago there started a war to end all wars. The honest truth is that it started as foolishness as it was...See More »
Sunday story # 1 - The Corryvreckan "A Scandinavian Prince, Breakan, fell in love with a Princess of the Island, whose father consented to the marriage, on condition that Breakan should show his skill and courage by anchoring his boat for three days and three nights in the whirlpool...See More »
An re-encounter with Losing my religion The good old South way for sure. I'm losing my religion; I'm losing my grip on reality. It's my birthday soon and I'll be yet another year more than 50. I hate my life. Have gotten a degree in history but can't afford a master as yet. Love to study...See More »
Into the storm we go together Even the very best amongst us may still feel a constant anxiety in storms, of our own making or not, but then again one should always try look for some sort of spirtual guidance too so that it may strengthen and encourage ourselves. We're never alone...See More »
Five Centurions from the Bible - 2Julius, the shipwrecked centurion with St Paul (Acts 27:9-15) along the coast at Phoinix Perhaps you’ve already guessed that the point of looking into five centurions from the Bible is to show what the gentile’s role in ones own personal faith as a...See More »
Five Centurions from the Bible - 1The Roman centurion with great faith (Luke 7:1-10 and Matthew 8:5-13) at Capernaum: The faith of this non-named centurion was incredible, and even Jesus was amazed as we read in the Bible. Just halt here, and think about it this: even Jesus was...See More »