Marginalia

2009

December
November 10
October 1
September 8
August 19
July
June 5
May 2
April 52
March 317
February 243
January 23

2008

December 12
November 24
October 15
September 14
August 37
July 24
June 24
May 36
April 21
March 65
February 83
January 85

2007

December 20
November 13
October 48
September 129
August 201
July 165
June
May
April
March
February
January
Pool of Siloam
Mar 2nd
Mar 2nd
Jesus Heals the Blind Man
Mar 2nd

THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT

2 March 2008 John W. Sewell John 9: 1-38   It is easy to assume that the truth we can see and...
Mar 2nd
Pantheon — Rome
Feb 29th
“Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon...”
— Jan Bolt
Feb 29th
Feb 29th
Help Others.org: Every Kid Needs Smarties! --...
Feb 29th
ectoplasmosis » A House Built for Books
Feb 29th
Warch Watch
Frozen Grand Central (via )
Feb 29th
Typewriter — John Jude Palencar
Feb 28th

What's Your Point?

Jesus told a lot of stories — the parables — still fascinate people - most of these are...
Feb 28th
The Father Who Lost Two Sons _ Robert Farrar...
Feb 28th
Parables of Jesus - Wikipedia, the free...
Feb 28th
Parable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Feb 28th
The Parable Sower — John Jude Palencar
Feb 28th
On this ancient bronze statue, St. Peter has his right toes...
Feb 27th
“Fisherman most mighty, in whose net powerful monarchs have...”
— A Prayer to Saint Peter (I was...
Feb 27th
The Sisters of St. Mary at Memphis.
Feb 27th
Community of St. Mary - Wikipedia, the free...
Feb 27th
NPR: Lessons from America's Tropical Epidemic
Feb 26th
Samaritan Woman — Sironi
Feb 25th
Jesus and the Samartian Woman — Stephen Broadbent...
Feb 25th
Located 3/4 mile south of Nablus, Jacob’s Well...
Feb 25th

The Quality of Your Communication is the...

“Communication is primarily an emotional process not an intellectual one.” We think because we said...
Feb 25th
James Wu — Breaking the Barrier
Feb 25th
Don’t go out today — Albert Kim
Feb 24th
“Yet one’s plan, alas, is one thing and one’s...”
— Henry James 1843-1916 American...
Feb 24th
Ecphrasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Feb 21st
“(after a painting Jacob’s Dream by William Blake and Genesis...”
— Wendell Berry
Feb 21st
Williaim Blake — Jacob’s Dream
Feb 21st
Saints in Glory — Corrando Giaquinto
Feb 20th

Avoidance is not a voyage

We can’t get there without getting wet.  Sailing requires risk as does anything worth having....
Feb 20th
Schooner — Anne Packard
Feb 20th
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are...”
— John A. Shedd U.S. author, fl....
Feb 20th
Three Light Things: The Health, The Love and The Happiness ...
Feb 15th

From Loving -- Henry Green

Two deaf men are driving along in a car:
"This is Wembley."
"No, it's Thursday."
"So am I, let's stop and have a drink."
Feb 15th
The Truth and the Lie — Victor Safonkin
Feb 14th
“Mrs. Purkapile HE ran away and was gone for a year. ...”
Feb 14th
Bullets of Measureless Love — Victor Safonkin
Feb 14th
“Roscoe Purkapile SHE loved me. Oh! how she loved me! I...”
— Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950)....
Feb 14th
What of a life well lived is studied and conscious and what is spontaneous and lies beneath...
Feb 14th
Virginia Woolf
Feb 13th
“[Of sitting next to Virginia Woolf at lunch:] It was like...”
— Harold J. Laski —...
Feb 13th
Feb 13th

What was the fruit of the knowledge of...

In western culture the forbidden fruit was an apple. This was the case because the Latin word for...
Feb 11th
Anima — Karen Yurkovoich
Feb 11th
Christianasa — Eve and Adam
Feb 11th

Lent Begins

The Old Testament reading for the First Sunday of Lent (year a) is the story of Adam, Eve and the...
Feb 11th
adam, eve and the snake
Feb 11th
“The attempt to ‘go back’ or romanticize the ‘good ol’ days’...”
— Robert O. Johnson —
Feb 11th
“The First Sunday of Lent”
Feb 10th
The Two Crowns — Sir Frank Dicksee
Feb 10th

The Great Litany

At Saint John’s we begin the First Sunday of Lent with the great litany chanted in procession...
Feb 10th
Wounded Angel — Hugo Simberg
Feb 10th
“Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the...”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....
Feb 10th
Jeremy Geddes — Fan
Feb 10th
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a...”
—  Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne...
Feb 10th
Galileo Trial
Feb 8th
Galileo
Feb 8th

Faith and Doubt not Doubt vrs. Faith

It is commonly held that doubt and faith are one of the contradictory opposites resulting from the...
Feb 8th
tree stump
Feb 8th
“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”
— Wison Mizner U.S. playwright,...
Feb 8th
The anatomy of the sun
Feb 8th
“Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to...”
— A Biographical Critique of...
Feb 8th
The Sun
Feb 8th
“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist....”
— G K Chesterton
Feb 7th
Hypnotis Spectre — Greg Staples
Feb 7th
“When the church gave up fasting the culture took up dieting.”
— Gertrude Muller Nelson —...
Feb 6th
Hannes Hofstetter — Show Me Your Wounds
Feb 6th

Memento Mori

Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return goes the declaration of Ash Wednesday.  The...
Feb 6th
Borstoz — The Way I Feel Today
Feb 6th
“The ashes of an oak in the chimney are not an epitaph of...”
— John Donne
Feb 6th
 David Rankin — Binding Wheel
Feb 6th
“Remember that you are dust and to dust that you shall...”
— Book of Common Prayer
Feb 6th
Feb 6th
“The fasts of the rich are the feasts of the poor.”
Feb 5th
The Baker’s Dozen — Adrian Gottlieb
Feb 5th

Fat Tuesday -- Shrove Tuesday -- Lent...

Some sociologist has said that Christianity was a renewal movement in Jerusalem, a religion in Rome,...
Feb 5th
“FAT TUESDAY”
Feb 5th
Feb 5th
Bruce Ricker — Land of Lakes
Feb 3rd
““Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when...”
— Studies in Classic American...
Feb 3rd
Michael Mayer Fighter
Feb 1st
D H Lawrence
Feb 1st

Intimacy -- Immune Systems -- D H...

“Love is the mysterious vital attraction which draws things together, closer, closer together. For...
Feb 1st
Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet...
Feb 1st