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Khidr and the drunkard
Hamdi Hoca, an Ottoman subject and student of theology, born in Ankara, told us the following story. One day during Ramadan, a drunk man went to stretch out under the dome of Hagia Sophia. Meanwhile the faithful gathered there to pray and to listen to the homily of the imam… Continue reading
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Capsule Film Reviews: Color of the Cross
I have, as I have said many times on this blog previously, watched a lot of films on television and in the theatre since the 1960s. Though I wasn’t really old enough to see them in the cinema when they came out I have been able to see … Continue reading
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The Lebanese Rocket Society – Joana Hadjithomas/Khalil Joreige
The Lebanese Rocket Society (Joana Hadjithomas/Khalil Joreige – Lebanon/France/Qatar) 90 minutes In the 1960s, as the space race was heating up between the global superpowers, a small recently established Armenian university in Beirut was conducting its own rocket program of sorts. The program Continue reading
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Reflections on Lent
It’s been a while since Lent – most of these types of posts were popping up during and immediately after it took place, but I like to let ideas ruminate for a bit, I find it does them good. I’ve never truly … Continue reading
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The Kingdom: Future
Oh hey! So I’ve been sadly, though probably not noticeably, absent from the blogging scene for some time. I feel that a lame attempt at an excuse is necessary. You see, I got really lazy for a while…and then that laziness resulted in me becoming… Continue reading
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花亦芬老師主講：歐洲修道院的香草花園 到 Hildegard von Bingen,
2013.5.15 （週三） 「紙上 花園－臺大文學獎閱讀展」講座 花 亦芬老師主講：歐洲修道院的香草 花園 時間：2013年5月15日（週三）19:00 地點：雅頌坊 講者： 花 亦芬老師（臺大歷史學系教授） 主辦單位：臺大藝文中心 活動網站： 按此連結 活動介紹： 雅頌坊前多了一個小 花園？ 教堂與 花園的關係是什麼？ 修道院的神父與修女為什麼要種植香草？ 香草園不僅美觀，也是實用的生活材料， 亦為歐洲人建立草本醫學的起點。歷史系教授 花 亦芬將由藝術史與宗教史的觀點談歐洲修道院的香草 花園、自然與人之間的關係。 種植是藝術，因為這詩意的勞動過程緩慢地建立了生活的馨香與美感 。 ｙｏｕｔｕ … Continue reading
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To Russia With Love
12 May 2013 Dear Phyllis, The Lord has embarrassed me. I wonder if there has ever been a man on this planet that has had more privileges than me. I am reduced to silence and tears to think of the inexpressible goodness of God to me. It will tax eternity to… Continue reading
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Gatsby, Morality, and Life Messages
I’m a big fan of F. Scott-Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby, so of course I was super excited to go see the film the past weekend. 
Like any other complex piece of literature, The Great Gatsby has numerous take… Continue reading
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Cover Love: Ninth Edtion
Why I always have such a blast putting these posts together, I’ve not a clue! But, I do! While thinking about doing one, I thought to my self, “nope, not enough time has passed, I don’t have a good enough selection.”… Continue reading
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half-sister Christian Louboutin Outlet wait for a variety of events
But they seemed to me very outrageous things had gone after all, at present the most important is the young baby.I like a snail, hard to climb for a lost direction, however, that the heavy camel maggot shell, lost soul.Bitter, untold secret ;tears, not the past ;… Continue reading
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Adaptation & Blue Like Jazz
Blue Like Jazz provides a compelling case study on the process of book-to-film adaptation, as it reveals how the conversion between mediums can result, not not only in losing something in translation, but in positively inverting the meaning of a text. In … Continue reading
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That They May Be One
The film “Chocolat” tells the poignant story of Vianne, a single mother, who arrives during Lent in 1959 in a rigidly traditional French village. Despite the villagers’ commitment to Lenten fasting and self-denial, Vianne, a chocolatier, sets up a small shop and begins to introduce the villagers to … Continue reading
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A foggy Sunday meditation …
(Above: if it wasn’t for the hams … Ben Kingsley hamming it up as Trevor, and Benedict Cumberbatch channeling a triple layer of Richard Burton pork, as usual only the darkness and the baddies providing some light). It’s a grey foggy … Continue reading
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Gruesome Origins of Favorite Fairy Tales
Fairy tales of the past were often full of macabre and gruesome twists and endings. Disney and other film production companies have sanitized these stories for a modern audience that is deemed unable to cope with something other than a … Continue reading
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MÄNNISKAN VÄNDER GUD RYGGEN – The Unbelievers Plan to Rid the World of God
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2013/05/07/unbelievers-plan-rid-world-god?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AIGDaily+%28Answers+in+Genesis+Daily+Articles%29 by Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, AiG–U.S. May 7, 2013 Layman Keywords atheism author-elizabeth-mitchell christianit … Continue reading
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