Notes on Turnbull’s The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan ( Read more... )

A few seconds agoJim Comer ( Read more... )

*I'm here for a repair appointment at the Apple store.

John Adams' masterwork on 9/11

So the news is full of nothing else. As it will be for the stock, standard twenty-four hour news cycle, whereupon it will flop over to something else, the bearded man forgotten. As I've slept, awakened, come down to here, my writer's discipline has caught a few of the fish in the language-liquid of my thought stream.

This vitiates all the ( Read more... )

This is a strange book ( Read more... )

Wow. This is one heaven of a ultramatum!

Matthew 25:35.

He was arrested.

So I got here yesterday after some hours spent driving to Maryhill and Fauxnhenge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlf5ucFanpY

The fake Stonehenge was corny; you can see the joins in the cement-block menhirs and trilithons. Maryhill was very weird: its vaunted Rodins are ( Read more... )

"With typical Alexandrian aplomb, Origen also asserted that, after the Crucifixion, Christ continued His work of salvation throughout the planetary system, beginning with Venus."

NOW we know whence came Lewis' *Perelandra*.

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When you see all these things, know that God's domain is near.

Wait a minute. God's Domain isn't necessarily a future happy land when the oceans all turn to lemonade. (Yuck.) It's God; God isn't in the future or the past. God is beyond time: for God, all this stuff is happening/will happen/has already happened. (The ability to so much as ( Read more... )