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Paradoxes for Better Living, 8 16 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
“There is no simple, fixed line that divides realistic fiction from other kinds. Allegorical patterns which truly represent reality — like those in Thurber’s tale — may figure in complex realistic fic...
Imagination As Love 13 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
Read this outstanding reflection on imagination and image-creating, with special reference to the stories of Anton Chekhov: Imagination As Love. Filed under: Humanities, theology Tagged: Anton Chekho...
Paradoxes for Better Living, 7 13 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am
“Paradox is the intellectual life’s authentic pathos, and just as only great souls are prone to passions, so only great thinkers are prone to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing but grand thought...
Paradoxes for Better Living, 6 13 Aug 2013 | 04:49 am
“Perhaps someone…inclined to fix his attention upon the outstanding individual who suffered at the hands of the public, may be of the opinion that such an ordeal is a great misfortune. I cannot at all...
Paradoxes for Better Living, 5 6 Aug 2013 | 06:31 pm
Portrait of Pascal (Photo: Wikipedia) “The two faculties which should help people be wise and perceptive, the senses and reason, are engaged in a constant battle, in which one tries to deceive the ot...
‘What the arts are concerned with’ 6 Aug 2013 | 07:01 am
“This, then, is what the arts are concerned with, this is what they intend, namely, to restore within us the divine likeness.” — Hugh of St. Victor Hugh of St. Victor is not exactly a household name....
Paradoxes for Better Living, 4 2 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
“Come now, do I really give you the impression that I advocate a life of inactivity? I have only buried myself away behind closed doors in order to be able to be of use to more people.” — Seneca, in L...
Storytelling makes us human 29 Jul 2013 | 04:01 am
“They say language makes us human. That notion is being challenged as we discover that apes have language. Whales have language. I welcome them into our fold. I’m not threatened by them, quite frankly...
Episcopalians outlive other Anglicans and Protestants as a whole 26 Jul 2013 | 01:48 am
“Life expectancy” is a strange statistic, but hey, if official number-crunchers use it, then it must be useful for something. Here are some global life-expectancy comparisons, in years, grouped by re...
N.T. Wright’s comments on Christian worship, and a subtler implication 25 Jul 2013 | 12:16 am
“If you have the right beliefs, then approaches, methods, and manners do not matter.” Innumerable American Protestants seem to take this point of view as axiomatic. At first blush, the following defe...
