I have written previously about the hundreds, the thousands of spam messages sent to this site. They are mostly caught by the spam filter. Occasionally some are not. And some the filter checks if it is a human rather than a bot and asks you a question. I have said previously that I do not
Film-maker Stephen Riehl was developing a work of fiction about a man who in the face of a world growing increasingly materialistic, depersonalized, and divided decides to withdraw into contemplation and become a modern day stylite. While researching stylite asceticism he happened upon a photo essay by Georgian photo journalist Temo Bardzimashvili about an Orthodox
seated at the right hand of the Father We’ve done enough, I hope, on metaphor. There is a reflection on the Ascension. Let us take as read that God does not have a right hand, and heaven is not up. Let’s talk about absence and presence. An absence is a special sort of presence. Don’t
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New Zealand has been coming to a grinding halt to watch the America’s Cup. [Is today going to be the day?!] The more I have watched it, the more the commentators’ metaphors leaped out at me (OK you spotted that metaphor!) [Update: 9:40am – no, today is not the day. Oracle has now won 7
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The recent interview of Pope Francis has caused quite a stir. To say the least. It was conducted by Fr Antonio Spadaro, a fellow Jesuit, on behalf of La Civiltà Cattolica (the Italian Jesuit journal of which he is the editor in chief), America, and several other major Jesuit journals around the world. There’s quite
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The Episcopal Church’s Book of Common Prayer (page 18) has “The Ember Days, traditionally observed on the Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays after the First Sunday in Lent, the Day of Pentecost, Holy Cross Day, and December 13”. The mnemonic is “Lenty, Penty, Crucy, Lucy”. In ancient Italy the times (originally three) were associated with sowing,
On the third day he rose again Those of you following this series on the Creed will notice echoes from the post on Conceived by the Holy Spirit. There I said – the Bible is a mixture of history and metaphor and if you study the mentions of Jesus’ conception (and there’s really only a
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