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The Moon Rise

Jan 31st

Victor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov — The Knight at the...

Jan 31st

How Hard It Is To Tell The Truth To...

The national debate and beauty contest that passes for a Presidential campaign now moves into high...

Jan 31st

Jan 31st

“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”
— Francois, Sixth Duc de la...

Jan 31st

Carmen Alberti

Jan 30th

“Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they...”
— Donald Justice U.S. poet,...

Jan 30th

Jan 30th

“Among all my patients in the second half of life —...”
— Carl Gustav Jung [Swiss...

Jan 30th

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Jan 30th

J Ivcevich — Infinite Prospects Perpetual Projects

Jan 29th

Do No Harm or Do The Good

Ethical choices often come into contradiction. Two of the prime principles for living are doing the...

Jan 29th

Exhausted faith — Victor Safonkin

Jan 28th

Bi-focal's of the Spirit

I was born with one near sighted and one far sighted eye. My brain adapted to this condition so I...

Jan 28th

Jan 28th

Cloud Hunters — Victor Safonkin

Jan 28th

“To grasp a perspective to which the mortal eye has no...”
— Anitia Albus

Jan 28th

A Discriminating Discrimination

The calling of James and John, Peter and Andrew as disciples marks the beginning of the public...

Jan 27th

The Way of the Cross — Charles Bragg

Jan 27th

Elton Trueblood “A Weighty Friend”

Jan 27th

Brown — Jesus Washes Peter’s Feet

Jan 27th

“Follow me and I will make you fishers of people”
— Jesus

Jan 27th

Caravaggio — The Calling of Saint Matthew

Jan 25th

The Defeat of Bull — Victor Safonkin

Jan 23rd

Showing Up For The Bull Fight

What do we love? Why? How much? What attachments do we have? To what? Are our attachments in...

Jan 23rd

The Dogma — Victor Safonkin

Jan 23rd

Ethical Principles

—Examples of Virtues or Values: Autonomy: the duty to maximize the individual’s right to...

Jan 23rd

Wade Schuman — Passages Rowing Man

Jan 22nd

What Lies Beneath - Chris Buzelli

Jan 21st

Jan 20th

“Laughter is a biblical way of receiving a newness which...”
— Walter Brueggmann

Jan 20th

Shades of Gray — Richard Currier

Jan 19th

Integrity and Sin

The immune system is a fascinating thing. I grew up thinking of the immune system in terms of...

Jan 19th

Ebola Virus

Jan 19th

“Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine...”
— D. H. Lawrence English...

Jan 19th

mycoplasma pneumonia

Jan 19th

“And if tonight my soul may find her peace In sleep, and...”
— “Shadows” l. r...

Jan 18th

The Sleepers and the One Who Watcheth — Simeon Solomon

Jan 18th

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and...”
— Robert Lous Stevenson...

Jan 17th

Stepping Into the Light — Gilad

Jan 17th

 Marie Antoinette Queen of France

Jan 16th

New Year's Resolutions

I refuse to make new resolutions! There is something about the turning of the year that calls on us...

Jan 16th

Jan 16th

“Our secret Weapon is no alternative.”
— Gola Meir Russian-born Israeli...

Jan 16th

leadership

Jan 16th

“Change before you have to.”
— Jack Welch   

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Jan 13th

“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of...”
— Winston Churchill   

Jan 13th

Hikers — Josip Konta

Jan 13th

“Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the...”
— John the Baptizer

Jan 13th

Robert Bateman

Jan 13th

Jan 12th

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
— Voltaire

Jan 12th

What Do We See?

What do we see? What is it that is being revealed? What is seen in time is ordinary and plain. What...

Jan 11th

Wilton Diptyth

Jan 11th

Richard Currier — See No Evil ….

Jan 10th

What Shall Be Revealled?

Epiphany! Manifest! Reveal! Display! What is it that we seek? What is it we receive? This child,...

Jan 10th

Bowel In Light — Donna Mocon

Jan 10th

““May Christ, the Son of God, be manifest in you, that your...”

Jan 10th

Jan 9th

How Long?

How long did the Holy Family stay in Egypt? The Coptic tradition seems to feel that they were there...

Jan 9th

Luc Olivier Merson - Rest On The Flight Into Egypt

Jan 9th

“When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I...”
— Hosea 11:1

Jan 9th

Tissot - Flight Into Egypt

Jan 8th

Flight Into Egyt Yayang Prajanjin Indonesia

Jan 8th

Pual Koli India

Jan 7th

The Flight Into Egypt

Escaping from Herod, Joseph took Mary and the chld into Egypt. The Coptic Church has a rich...

Jan 7th

George Hickcock — Flight Into Egyt

Jan 7th

Rembrandt

Jan 6th

The Epiphany

This year the Epiphany falls on Sunday!  The day of revealing — Jesus the Son of God displayed...

Jan 6th

Tissot — The Magi

Jan 6th

Melchoir Crossing the Red Sea — Pesellino

Jan 5th

The Eve of The Epiphany

Epiphany from the Greek manifest is the word at the end of the Twelve Days of Christmass.  The only...

Jan 5th

Mikel Glass — I wannabeaballeria

Jan 5th

Bosch Triptich - Prado

Jan 4th

New Year - Same Life

Nothing much changes in spite of the turning of  new leaves and the taking up of resolutions (other...

Jan 3rd

“The Inevitability of Gradualness”
— AA Old Timer

Jan 3rd

Patience — Eric Nikkessen

Jan 3rd

His Salvation — Cornelis Monsma

Jan 2nd

“The rabbis “saw all names… as given by God, and...”
— Heinemann, Darkhe ha-madah, p....

Jan 2nd

“Wendell Berry once said, quite movingly at a reading at...”
— William Irwin Thompson

Jan 1st

Triumph of the Innocents

The painting Triumph of the Innocents is at first glance perhaps a bit of 19th century...

Jan 1st

Triumph of the Innocents — William Holman Hart...

Jan 1st

Holy Name

Today is the Feast of the Holy Name. Happy New Year!  What sort of name will we have this year? ...

Jan 1st

James Tissot — Flight Into Egypt

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