Rembrandt – "The Return of the Prodigal Son (from Forgiveness (en.wikipedia.org)) As artaxes observes in Stories From Lockdown? (artaxes.wordpress.com). IB knocks it out of the park. She lists the irreversible harms of two years of covid craziness and the irrecoverable loss of trust in the fellow man. Stories From Lockdown? (artaxes.wordpress.com) So, what is IB's... Continue Reading →
A PATTERN OF PRAYER — PART 3
Relief print of Daniel’s prayer by Edward Poynter, 1865. Daniel 6 describes how Daniel prayed even though threatened with death, while Daniel 9 records a prayer that he prayed.(from Prayer in the Hebrew Bible) In Part 1 of this series, I proposed to use Daniel 9:1-19 as a pattern or model for a prayer of my own. Why? What had Daniel done?... Continue Reading →
CAN WE BRIDGE THE GAP THAT DIVIDES US?
In 2010 I wrote A GAP TOO WIDE AND TOO DEEP TO BRIDGE. In that post I quoted from Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville. Why? In the first part of the 1830's Tocqueville, a French aristocrat, rode around America for two years on horseback. Then he wrote down his observations and published a two-volume work. Tocqueville's... Continue Reading →
WE ARE ALL PILGRIMS
pilgrim (n.)c. 1200, pilegrim, from Old French pelerin, peregrin "pilgrim, crusader; foreigner, stranger" (11c., Modern French pèlerin), from Late Latin pelegrinus, dissimilated from Latin peregrinus "foreigner" (source of Italian pellegrino, Spanish peregrino), from peregre (adv.) "from abroad," from per- "beyond" + agri, locative case of ager "country" (see acre). Change of first -r- to -l-... Continue Reading →
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