Latest video
Shake your hips
Tag Archives: G.K. Chesterton
traitors and spies: pathology of victimhood
Its a very particular and idiosyncratic group of individuals that constitute the traitor and in some cases the spy and the double-agent. In the former group few perceive of themselves as traitors, tending to view their plight from the perspective … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged G.K. Chesterton, G.K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday, Giotto di Bordone, Giotto Kiss of Judas, Glover Psychology of Love and Fear, James Alexander psychology, L. Russov Russian painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Narcississtic Personality Disorder, Spies and Traitors
Leave a comment
big bang and it came upon us
The nature of evil, the mechanical moving parts that make up villainy.The question is always posed, so that the question reveals the answer: if humanity collectively does want evil, then why does it exist? The short answer is that goodness … Continue reading
Judgements of Joan
Her trial and execution were only the beginning. In the centuries since, the Maid has continued to provoke anger and adoration, skpticism and awe… “You have heard the last of her,” says her Executioner to the Earl of Warwick in … Continue reading
Francis and the wild things
Of Saint Francis’s ability to lure birds and beasts there can hardly be any question. But the modern reader may well inquire as to the nature of his alluring power and may ask science for an explanation. Unfortunately science seems … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Donovan Brother Sun and Sister Moon, Franco Zeffirelli, G.K. Chesterton, Isenbrant artist, Jane Goodall, Konrad Lorenz, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, roberto rossellini, Saint Francis Blessing of the Animals, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis Song of the Creatures, Saint Francis with the Animals, Sandro Botticelli
Leave a comment
one day there time will surely come
Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred North Whitehead, Anabaptism, Carl Jung, Christian Heresies, Christian heretics, Franz Kafka, G.K. Chesterton, Gnosticism, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Durrell, Orson Welles, Peter Gay, Sigmund Freud, Socinianism, the Aga Khan, the Albigensians, The Protestant Reformation, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, William Blake
Leave a comment
normal: what them worry?
Stiff necked? For sure. The perils of Pauline in the desert is clear evidence of that, an unruly nature not easily buying into the coach’s plans for victory and redemption,perhaps setting the seeds for the later exile. But today is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benny Gantz, Christopher Hitchens, daphni leef, David Ben Gurion, G.K. Chesterton, Gilles Deleuze, Harold Bloom, Joel Schalit, Marcel Duchamp, MK Michael Ben Ari, MK Regev, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Herzl, tony judt, Udi Aloni, Yassam special forces, Zionism
Leave a comment
somewhere between 2 B.C. and 6 A.D.
There was the Year One. In the sixth century, Dionysius Exiguus presented a calculation of the “first year of our Lord”; it was slightly inaccurate, given the scant and conflicting evidence in the Gospels, and on neither of those accounts … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Newman, Anton Raphael Mengs, Augustus, Ceres pagan madonna, Dionysius Exiguus, E.M. Forster, Edward Gibbon, G.K. Chesterton, geologist jefferson williams, Henry Koster, Hieronymous Bosch, Josephus Flavius, King Herod, Konrad Witz, Leptis Magna theater, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pliny the Younger, Richard Burton
Leave a comment
end of narnia
To make theology entertaining. The seven books for children which comprises the Chronicles of Narnia, published between 1950-1956 was a high accomplishment. As “space” was the medium of his trilogy, another common science fiction element, “dimension” is that of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia, Chad Walsh, Charles Williams, G.K. Chesterton, George Macdonald Victorian mystic, Henry Fuseli, j.r.r. tolkein, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
Leave a comment
bowing your head at the Name
If its not bent it’s broken. And if it’s not broken don’t fix it… In this sweeping theological fantasy, man is both reduced and exalted. Reduced in the naked depiction of his self-wrought condition, exalted through the mystery of the … Continue reading