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Plumper Cove , Keats Island, BC – journallingI
It’s lovely here, anchored, sitting below in the cabin of my sailboat drinking coffee and blogging. It was hot on deck when I went topsides and threw the dinghy overboard for a later row ashore with my first mate, Gilbert, the cockapoo. I’m grateful today. Grateful that the sun … Continue reading
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Hysteria and the Holy Life
Hysteria • Psychiatry a psychological disorder (not now regarded as a single definite condition) whose symptoms include conversion of psychological stress into physical symptoms (somatization), selective amnesia, shallow volatile emotions, and overdramatic or attention-seeking behavior. The term has … Continue reading
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The Tree of Life in Ancient Egypt
This morning, at the 7th symposium of Margaret Barker’s Temple Studies Group, I listened to a fascinating presentation by Prof John Hall about the Lady in the Temple in Ancient Egypt. One of the Lady’s symbols is the Tree of Life and this is true in… Continue reading
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Upcoming Book of Australian Aboriginal Christian Art
Painting of the three crosses by Anangu artist Yvonne-Edwards. Dating from September 2012, this article profiles the author/compiler of an upcoming book on Australian Aboriginal Christian art, Christobel Mattingley. The article states, “Together with Bible Society Australia’s Remote and Continue reading
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Heathen Barbarians
The human flexed his fingers nervously, a slight frown creasing his brow. His suit, though tailored by the finest craftsmen on Earth, seemed ill fitting and over-warm. Across the desk, the committee member watched impassively, complex thirty-fingered hands interlaced and motionless. Continue reading
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#1035 which then turned into a quiet thought
Why the number 3 is now part of my favourite numbers list. In Mathematics 3 is the first odd prime number and the second smallest prime. 3 is the second triangular number and the only prime triangular number 3 is the only prime which is one less than a perfect square. 3 … Continue reading
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On the Restoration or the Shredding of Sanity
The Catalan woman enters the great cathedral. A long, black lace cloth covers her head. She steps softly across a marble floor, ignoring the forty-foot high stained glass windows; dips wrinkled fingers into a stone fount, moves her fingers to her forehead, then across her chest and belly; … Continue reading
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Trinity and Salvation
Today i bequeath talk about twain catholic article of belief statements, buy and the Blessed Trinity. starting eat off with redemption. The definition of buyback is: the deliverance from sin that we faecal matter gain by a kin with deity. This means that through our relationship with theology in Continue reading
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Release Event | Soul Awareness by Carol Murto
Book Title: Soul Awareness Author: Carol Murto Release Date: June 5, 2013 Genre: Spirituality, Healing, Alternative Publisher: GMTA Publishing LLC Presented by: As You Wish Tours BLURB Soul Awareness – A Spiritual Awakening to Self Knowledge and Healing is a Spiritual self help book, designed to bri … Continue reading
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To Tend and Befriend, part 1
It’s summertime for me now, and I’m gleefully starting my readings for Fall semester, which doesn’t start for another three or so months — this time I won’t get caught short on time! I’m going to try reading all the books … Continue reading
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Goddesses in Eve Ensler’s Memoir ‘In the Body Of the World’
I finished reading In the Body of the World, the 2013 memoir by dramatist/activist Even Ensler, on Monday night. Because I wrote about it in some detail on Book Club Friday last week, I don’t feel the need to share my review here, although I… Continue reading
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book review: a theology for the church | daytonhartman.com
Book Review. Okay, I’ll admit that this review comes a few years after A Theology for the Church was originally published. Still, I wanted to share a few thoughts relating to this useful text. Unique Features. First, A Theology for … Continue reading
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"Now Dig This": Tip-top Terry Southern’s adventures in the quality-lit game
Now dig this: Here’s two hundred fifty pages of wildly unclassifiable, wholly entertaining (and, yes indeed, some unspeakable) bits and pieces of Terry Southern’s magazine writings, interviews, stories, and routines. A genuine literary anarchist with a wicked wit and an incredible eye for detail — … Continue reading
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Yo! Music for Mercy: Beautiful Eulogy, Josh Garrels, Bodi, DC Talk, etc.
Christians praying in Goma, DR of Congo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) . First I got a note yesterday from my friend Dan Q. about Beautiful Eulogy, a Christian hip hop act from Portland. I read and listened this morning, and in following it… Continue reading
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Religious Elements In Robinson Crusoe
Robinson crusoes preface stresses the storys religious implication that Defoe wished his hero to undergo lesson as well as animal(prenominal) trails for Defoe as a replete human being must evolve spiritu eachy as well as defy physically. Defoe called the book allegorical in Continue reading
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