Eucatastrophy Reader: 2007

To Kill a King

2008-07-02T04:27:23Z

“not what they want but what is good for them.” Remark by Oliver Cromwell. Tonight's movie was To Kill a King. It is the story of the Roundhead's victory over the armies of King Charles in one of England's more interesting revolutions. It's ab...

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Cosmopolotan Patriotism

2008-06-30T18:28:46Z

One of my projects in the last few weeks has been to read the Middle East and Islamic World Reader edited by Marvin Getterman and Stuart Shaar. It would be IMPOSSIBLE to discuss each and every primary source in this anthology (Just the question g...

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Romancing the Shadow

2008-06-30T17:53:30Z

"Beneath the social mask we wear every day, we have a hidden shadow side: an impulsive, wounded, sad, or isolated part that we generally try to ignore. The Shadow can be a source of emotional richness and vitality, and acknowledging it can be a p...

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Embrace by Billy Collins

2008-06-30T17:19:21Z

You know the parlor trick. wrap your arms around your own body and from the back it looks like someone is embracing you her hands grasping your shirt her fingernails teasing your neck from the front it is another story you never looked s...

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My summer Reading List

2008-06-30T17:07:00Z

I am not sure that I am going to have much of my summer to read what I want but here is my summer reading list as it is shaping up should I manage to get myself fired so that I can just read what I am interested in. Grin. I am working on developin...

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"Perhaps men and women should live next door, and just visit now and then"

2008-06-29T21:53:31Z

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door, and just visit now and then." Katherine Hepburn Just finished reading Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers: Testosterone and Behavior by James McBride Dabbs....

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"Send a Bullet" (Manda Bala)

2008-06-25T04:24:23Z

OK, so my theme for this week is poverty. The other day I had seen the new Incredible Hulk movie and in the opening scenes, there are shots of the favela (slums) in Rio De Janeiro. They almost don't look real all stacked up like milk cartons on t...

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Icons v. Iconoclasts

2008-06-24T16:44:11Z

Yesterday, I read the chapter in The Story of Art about the Byzantines. One of my favorite things to teach about Byzantium is the iconoclast "wars". On one level the conflict in Byzantium over the use of images was a theological debate about the m...

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A Wake Up Call from My Friend Tom

2008-06-24T15:59:15Z

Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony De Mello OK, my friend, Tom, sent me a book a month or two ago and it is high time I responded to it. Awareness by Anthony DeMello is a spiritual self-help book that asks readers to ...

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"Better a dead husband in hell that reciprocates something than a lying lover in Carthage"

2008-06-22T04:33:11Z

A little more from the Aeneid today. Aeneas meets Dido on his way through hell to see his father: "Not far from these Phoenician Dido stood, Fresh from her wound, her bosom bath'd in blood; Whom when the Trojan hero hardly knew, Obscure in sh...

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