Tag: Christianity
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Fiction: Miss Peckham Departs
Men are mudsill. A woman stands up and a man’s only response is infidelity.
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Into the dusk of the East, Gray with the coming of night, This may we know at least– After the night comes light! Over the mariners’ graves, Grim in the depths below, Buoyantly breasting the waves, Into the East we go. On to a distant strand, Wonderful, far, unseen, On to a stranger land, Skimming…
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“Sympathy is no substitute for action.” David Livingstone
Not every tenement dweller can become the David Livingstone of his generation, but what if that was put forth as the goal? In terms of disease, sanitation and real poverty 19th century tenements were far worse than the modern versions in most western nations today. I wonder if the attitude was better then or was…
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
Of two minds. It’s how we live without crumbling into tears of frustration, terror and despair. We play mental games, don’t we? When I say “we” I mean slave owners and slave traders (past and present), black and white, vegetarians and trophy hunters. Abraham Lincoln was just like the rest of us until he was…
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How Can You Not Love a Face Like This?
Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus Time Magazine photo essay on the many Rembrandt depictions of Jesus.
Author Adrienne Morris 