Month: December 2004

My favorite time of day used to be dusk, when long shadows of twilight suggested finality, reconciliation, the completion of tasks well done or at least assayed...

The depiction is standardized throughout the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond, almost always called “Christ Pantocrator.” The word “pantocrato...

In a section of his Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought, Giles Constable considers the persistence of the Martha and Mary dichotomy as it rel...

Much of what we call or observe as change is contrived by culture. It is brought about artificially by those in power and authority, then redefined as inevitabl...

Modern culture has redefined change. Charts assign points to “change events” such as family, job, health, and financial changes. Such changes are re...

Among the many portraits of sagacity is Rouault’s The Old King. The work can be interpreted as appealing to monarchy or rule, but the tragic expression of...

Hermits are of two types, like ponds. One type of pond is fed from below, from deep sources of living water constantly refreshing the whole from within. This po...

Art invariably falls short of conveying the true content of divinity and sagacity and instead portrays religion. Renaissance cherubs, the severe Velazquez, the ...

As soon as we complain about the caprices and hardships of nature, we exchange nature for human compulsion. From tempest, drought, mudslide, flood and extremes ...

Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno extends the concept of compassion to all living beings, just as he extends consciousness to all living things. This he lin...