Marginalia

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human...”
— Einstein

Jul 31st

“Before God we are all equally wise — and equally...”
— Einstein

Jul 31st

“Theology and Science have the same source — God.”
— John De Rosen 1891-1982

Jul 31st

Einstein

Jul 31st

THE EDGE OF KNOWING

Of the riches of art in the church of Saint John’s Memphis the mural — Christ The Judge...

Jul 31st

Christ The Judge — John De Rosen —- Saint...

Jul 31st

BBC - Arts - Poetry

Jul 30th

BUTTERFLY DOWN

During the ill-fated Somalia peacekeeping inititive “Blackhawk down” entered the...

Jul 30th

Butterfly Down — Jeff Lynch

Jul 30th

Flock Odd Nerdrum If we are anxious enough we flock, herd...

Jul 29th

“Fedupness is the greatest motivation for change.”
— Dr. Edwin Friedman

Jul 29th

A Warrior In Sheep's Clothing?

If the sheep hunt the wolf do they begin to turn into the thing they feared? Or is it simply a case...

Jul 29th

Hunting The Wolf — Victor Safonkin

Jul 29th

SACRED - Sacred Stories

Jul 28th

Tiago Lima

Jul 28th

Griffin

Jul 28th

Griffin — mythical beast the combination of lion and...

Jul 28th

Chapel of Joseph Arimathea at the National Cathedral painted...

Jul 28th

Nicola Okin Frioli

Jul 27th

PLAYFULNESS IS DIVINE

The wonderful passage from the Psalms displays the deep creative playfulness of the Holy One creator...

Jul 27th

Beluga Whale

Jul 27th

“Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures...”
— Psalm 104:25-26 English...

Jul 27th

Brandon Breecroft — Stairway

Jul 26th

United Though Diverse

The pomegranate is one symbol of the church: one fruit filled with a multitude of seeds. The...

Jul 26th

Pomegrante — Barry Moser

Jul 26th

Peter And The Fish — Alexandre van Beeck

Jul 25th

OO — Cameron Stephen

Jul 25th

“It’s all right to drink like a fish if you drink what...”
— Mary Pettibone Poole

Jul 25th

Fish Faces

Jul 25th

Growth Comes Through Suffering

Growth does not come in the easy way we would like. We would like think that we grow by fun,...

Jul 24th

Jul 24th

People Will Love You But Also Let You...

For better for worse — for richer for poorer — in sickness and in health — ...

Jul 24th

Jul 24th

Things Do Not Go According To Plan

We love to have a plan. People are often paralyzed by choice when making life decisions feeling that...

Jul 24th

Jul 24th

Life Is Not Fair

The most unfair thing we teach children is that life is fair. We go to great lengths to keep the...

Jul 24th

Jul 24th

Things Change And End

We spend out lives saying hello and goodbye and living in between as if nothing will ever change. ...

Jul 24th

“Dentures”  — Odd Nerdrum

Jul 24th

The Things That Test All

In 2001 I went to California to Eselan Institute to study. One of the workshops I attended was...

Jul 24th

Neo-Surrealist take on Da Vinci. The solitary figure...

Jul 24th

Da Vinci Last Supper

Jul 24th

Icons In Culture

It is fascinating how religious art enters the culture. Da Vinci did new things almost every time...

Jul 24th

Star Wars Last Supper

Jul 24th

Apple Tree

Jul 23rd

“A seed in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible”
— Welch Proverb

Jul 23rd

dmf

Jul 23rd

The Apple Tree Recipe — Jack Yerka

Jul 23rd

“Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the...”
— Ezekiel 47:12

Jul 23rd

Jeremiah Tablet

Jul 22nd

A Boost for the Book of Jeremiah - TIME

Jul 22nd

She saw her chance and she took it!

Jul 22nd

“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful...”
— Hossein Arshan

Jul 22nd

Odd Nerdrum — Dying Couple (detail)

Jul 21st

“When an over-functioner lies dying someone else’s life...”
— unknown

Jul 21st

Over-functioning

Crowds out self in both in the helped and the helper. The helper does too much and feels too much....

Jul 21st

Over-functioning is a way of life.

Jul 21st

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Women In Art (via eggman913)

Jul 20th

Jul 20th

“Evensong Summer’s children rush again outside To play...”
— Lee McMahon

Jul 20th

Turtles On A Table

One of the metaphors for ministry I have had for years is a round table covered with small turtles....

Jul 20th

untitled — abelardo ojeda

Jul 20th

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
— Zora Neale Hurston

Jul 19th

Watch

We Anglicans are allergic to handing out tracts and I feel that one earns the right to speak to...

Jul 19th

Jul 19th

Grace -- It's not about us!

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally...

Jul 19th

Jul 19th

Jul 19th

“I considered atheism, but there weren’t enough...”
— ~Author Unknown

Jul 19th

“The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ”
— ~George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan

Jul 19th

Cracked!

Jul 19th

Giant Rubber Duck

Jul 19th

Mandrain Duck

Jul 19th

“I base my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.”
— also Gilda Radner

Jul 18th

“ I always wanted a happy ending… Now I’ve...”
—  Gilda Radner US actress &...

Jul 18th

Grasshopper Eye — Steve Cherry

Jul 18th

Queue De Tomate —Alain Gauvin

Jul 18th

Brian Despain

Jul 18th

“But then, shall I never get any older than I am now?...”
— Alice — Alice In...

Jul 18th

Large Willow — George Thurmond — A favorite...

Jul 17th

“When animals, as happens in parts of Eastern Europe,...”
— Drl Thomas stuttaford...

Jul 17th

If you want heathy kids getting a dog seems to be the way to...

Jul 17th

The Dangers of Being Too Clean

Jul 17th

Big Brother in all His Forms

Jul 17th

“One man’s death is a tragedy; the death of a million...”
— Joseph Stalin (who knew...

Jul 17th

The entrance to the mind shaft where the Grand Duchess...

Jul 16th

The Mary and Martha Convent that Elizabeth established after...

Jul 16th

Faberge Knot Pendent — A small example of the opulent...

Jul 16th

Imperial Martyr

Jul 16th

The portrait below and the icon above is of the same...

Jul 16th

Jul 16th

The Apocalypse Tapestry, a masterwork, hangs in...

Jul 15th

Jul 15th

The Black Swan

I am reading the new book by Nassim Nicholas Talem —The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly...

Jul 15th

North Pole Sunset

Jul 15th

Tang Dynasty — A pair of painted grey pottery ovoid...

Jul 14th

Neosynthesis

Jul 14th

Spore — Image Sevant

Jul 14th

“Aquinas pits praise against pride – the good angels turn to...”
— THE PHYSICS OF ANGELS —...

Jul 14th

Tree of Knowledge — Robert Fathauer

Jul 14th

“We were not put here to have a good time and that’s what...”
— 

Jul 14th

A Medieval Manuscript — Wheel of Fortune

Jul 14th

You Can Go Through Home Again

The great wisdom says that can’t go home again and that is true. But I have learned that you...

Jul 14th

Chicken Feet — keith Goldstein

Jul 13th

“ He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife....”
—  Douglas Adams English...

Jul 13th

The Longest Joke In The World

Jul 13th

It is in the silence

I have long  been intrigued with the encounter of Elijah and God at the mountain. It was not in the...

Jul 13th

Elijah in the desert.

Jul 13th

“The First Book of Kings tells of Elijah’s search for God and...”

Jul 13th

The Monks of New Skete

Jul 13th

The Monks of New Skete, an Orthodox Monastery in New York,...

Jul 13th

A Neo-surrealist take on Da Vinci’s Last Supper...

Jul 13th

Planet Earth —close up of tired truck fender. ...

Jul 12th

“If you think life is always improving, you’re going to...”
— David Whyte, Poet

Jul 12th

Bartholomew I — Ecumenical Patriarch

Jul 12th

Ecumenical Patriarch

Jul 12th

Icon of the Apostles

Jul 12th

““It is not revolutions and upheavals That clear the...”
— Boris Pasternak, “After...

Jul 12th

Anglicans Online

Jul 12th

Jul 12th

“In the Aramaic language, the word “satisfaction”...”

Jul 12th

Jul 12th

“Martin Luther tells us, “If I knew the world were to end...”

Jul 12th

Herend Miniature Pig  —-  In Memphis it is always the...

Jul 12th

Cabbage — True Blue Laura Berman Everything has a...

Jul 12th

The Association of American University...

Jul 12th

“Three conditions for the giving of self: a self that is...”
—   James White

Jul 12th

Paul Gauguin — The Vision After The Sermon: Jacob...

Jul 12th

“Eye Apple” by Ladoo Boy

Jul 12th

“And then they eat the apple, the knowledge of the opposites....”
— Joseph Campbell THE POWER OF...

Jul 12th

“Bees” by Barry Moser I love this delicate...

Jul 12th

It was amazing to find this bird believed extinct for sixty...

Jul 12th

Casper David Friedrich — 19th Century artist who...

Jul 11th

M. Ford Creech Gallery

Jul 11th

The exclamation point was invented by stacking letters. The...

Jul 11th

Gregg Levoy

Jul 11th

“Security is mostly a superstition.  It does not exist in...”
— Helen Keller

Jul 11th

I really like Moser’s choice for illustrating Jonah. ...

Jul 11th

Barry Moser

Jul 11th

Back To The Beach

I arrived back at the beach after a detour through Saint John’s to preach at the funeral of a...

Jul 11th

The Old Fashioned Gown — Olinsky

Jul 10th

Etsy

Jul 10th

people donate clothing to thrift shops but take all the...

Jul 10th

Saint Cuthbert pictured with his otter companions.  The...

Jul 10th

Bengal Cats

Jul 10th

“It is always far more harmful to achieve one’s ends by...”
— From The Fifth Sorceress by...

Jul 10th

Sichuan Squatting Drummer — Eastern Han Dynasty...

Jul 9th

“ When I rise up let me rise up joyful like a bird. When...”
— Wendell Berry from Prayers and...

Jul 9th

“Tradition teaches that soul lies midway between...”
— Care Of The Soul  Thomas Moore

Jul 9th

My great-great-great-grandfather Milton Sewell and family

Jul 9th

Uchronia

Jul 9th

The Marriage Feast At Cana — Jan Vermeyen (c. 1530)...

Jul 9th

“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander...”
— J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 -...

Jul 9th

To And Fro

I am on my way through home today for the funeral of a great lady. My insides have been preparing...

Jul 9th

Influenza virus

Jul 9th

“If we will stick with our inner experiences and not panic in...”
— Carl Jung

Jul 9th

“Big Rig Apparition” J Ivcevich

Jul 8th

Fish In Empty Pond Gustave Bettinger — French...

Jul 8th

Watching the Rhythm

I’ve been sitting for two days watching the water of the gulf washing the beach. From the...

Jul 8th

““A monk reads two books simultaneously; the text as it lies...”
— STRANGERS TO THE CITY:...

Jul 8th

Jul 8th

Billy Collins Poem

Jul 6th

Musing From the Minster

Jul 6th

“ “An artist’s materials — the bold brushstrokes of...”
— Antonella Fuga from her book...

Jul 6th

Driving South

Driving south to get away from the everyday slog only to run into the thousands running away from...

Jul 6th