The dynamic feminine versus the separative self
"By acknowledging our dependence, we allow gratitude and reciprocity to come forth freely and spontaneously."
View Articlefrom ’15 theological reasons arguments for gay marriage’
In Biblical times daughters were effectively owned by their fathers, and then ‘given’ in marriage to a husband who took over ownership. The main concern was control of property and obedience to...
View ArticleBrendan Kennelly: Nightenglish
Englishes approach, collide and veer away from each other in startling, perplexing and revealing ways.
View ArticleNew Atheists, deism, polytheism, pantheism…
"However, [the New Atheists] also reject deism - the belief in a God that is not based on revelation but on evidence from nature and does not intervene in the world - polytheism (belief in many gods),...
View Articlefrom The Primal Vision by John V Taylor
The primal vision is of a world of presences, of face-to-face meeting not only with the living but just as vividly with the dead and with the whole totality of nature.
View Articlefrom ‘The Atheist Paradox’ by Adam Roberts
"What should believers do if they discover that their belief is getting in the way of their proper connection to God? Would they be prepared to sacrifice their faith for their faith?"
View ArticleSimon Barrow on resurrection
He also means Jesus’s life made available to us in an unlimited sense (unlike that which is possible in “our mortal bodies”) through the Spirit, the Disturber.
View ArticleMihaly Csikszentmihalyi on autotelic people
An autotelic person needs few material possessions and little entertainment, comfort, power, or fame because so much of what he or she does is already rewarding.
View ArticleGosse on Tennyson
He has written, on the whole, with more constant, unwearied, and unwearying excellence than any of his contemporaries
View Article‘Everything was rotting down nicely, the way it should.
The pigs would grow, the hens would lay, an once the midden was ripe her son would appear to spread the muck on the potatoes.
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