Walls And Bridges

Occupied Palestine


Would-Be Paris of Appalachia

Heaven On Earth

Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water.

Jerusalem

Again He Speaks...

Leo Damrosch on William Blake's "religion."

Özgür Baba - Dertli Dolap

Georges Rouault

Painter.

Christmas Reading

I eagerly read Thomas Sheehan's The First Coming when it was hot off the press back in 1986. While it was gratifying to have my own understanding of the New Testament confirmed by the latest scholarship, I was also disturbed by the realization that the Christian churches would continue to peddle the same old legends as historical fact regardless. I also wondered how Sheehan managed to keep his job at Loyola University of Chicago (he would subsequently move to Stanford). In any case, the book deserves to be accounted a classic in the historical Jesus genre.



John Shelby Spong's The Fourth Gospel was published in 2013. One should read Sheehan's book first and then Spong's. Reading the latter, one can see how the latest scholarship may be employed to arrive at a new appreciation of Jesus--through the eyes of a Jewish mystic (not Spong, who is the retired Episcopal bishop of Newark, N.J., but the anonymous author of the fourth canonical gospel).

Gaiwan- Classical Chinese Tea-Making

Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer (complete)

On Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Process Of Translation

The Rock In Snow

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Remembering Mevlana

The Goal

An example:

J.S. Bach "Matthäus-Passion (Part I)" Mogens Wöldike

Quieter Than Silence | Full Concert | Mehdi Aminian

Sanctuary

Westar

The Forgotten Creed

“History reminds us again and again that it has always been easier to believe in miracles, in virgin births and atoning deaths, in resurrected bodies and heavenly journeys home,” Patterson says, “than something so simple and basic as human solidarity.”

~ Stephen J. Patterson

John Shelby Spong - GOD