Richard Dawkins so right and so wrong.

Richard Dawkins So Right and So Wrong (thinking too about Freud) (According to Bruno Bettelheim, who was brought up in the Vienna in which Freud had lived, the translation of Freud’s writing into English has been a disaster.  According to him,...

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Babbling of Green Fields chapter one

BABBLING OF GREEN FIELDS A Confession by Thomas Jackson ‘A parted just between twelve and one, even at the turning o’th’tide – for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play With flowers and smile upon his finger’s end,                                                                                                                                               I knew there was but one  way.  For...

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Jebb

Father Philip was housemaster of Caverel and in 1970 I was appointed to be his assistant housemaster.  A fireball of energy, he taught classics and fencing – indeed, at least one of his pupils became an Olympic fencer – and...

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Who Remembers Wappy now?

How can I even begin to describe Wappy?  Father Wulstan Phillipson had been attached to the Abbey Theatre in Dublin before, as he always implied though never quite said, abandoning a glittering dramatic career to join the monastery.  His English classes...

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The Fall

The Fall in Genesis 3:1-24 The most striking aspect of the story of the fall of mankind in Genesis is that God proves to be wrong and the serpent right.  Eve tells him that God has forbidden herself and Adam...

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