Apr
24
2018
Just as the S.S. killed people in gas chambers and did not think of themselves as committing a horrific crime but, on the contrary, persuaded themselves that they were performing a noble deed on behalf of the Reich, so...
Apr
17
2018
I.O.
(Woman is taking her husband to the doctor)
W: He’s really ill. I think he’s got Information Overload.
D: Does he talk in his sleep?
(M keeps surreptitiously reaching for the mobile phone in his pocket and wife keeps guiding away his...
Apr
16
2018
Confronted with the New Testament accounts of the risen Lord suddenly appearing in the room and asking if you have anything to eat I feel much as one might when faced with a text which has letters you can...
Apr
14
2018
Are the air strikes against Syria justified?
In the frame of reference within which we habitually operate yes. Within the frame of reference within which we ought to be operating no. Clearly Russsia is telling lies and Putin is an...
Apr
11
2018
The extraordinary characteristic of sculpture is that it gives weight, solidity and inescapable physical reality to abstract ideas. Think of those Greek kouroi again. They are portrayals of impossibly beautiful human beings, ideals that on this earth never existed. ...
Apr
10
2018
An important source for the Chartrean philosophy of light was the writing of Pseudo-Denis. He was called Pseudo- because he was thought originally to have been a companion of St Paul although he was probably, in fact, a fifth...
Apr
09
2018
Medieval churches and cathedrals were supposed to be images of the heavenly Jerusalem. Hence Romanesque churches are nearly always decorated with pictures of mosaics of Christ reigning in majesty, and nearly always over the porch of the main entrance...
Apr
09
2018
I have never felt so close to Jesus in my prayer life as this past Lent because sympathising with someone who is suffering acutely I can understand. But meeting someone who has risen from the grave I can't understand,...