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Lucifer’s lucky number or a typical Tuesday?
Jonathan Green June 6, 2006 AS YOU read this, it is entirely possible that the planet is wreathed in the unforgiving fire of either a Satanic or Godly apocalypse. Graves may have opened and the dead may be walking among us. Blasphemers have presumably been hung by the tongue, women who dress in a suggestive […]
King Lear Quotes
(My son, who’s a poet and literary expert, says King Lear and The Odyssey are the two greatest pieces of literature ever written. Sorry for the formatting. Rowland.) ~~~ King Lear (From Wikiquote) “King Lear and the Fool in the Storm” by William Dyce King Lear (1608) is a play by William Shakespeare that is […]
Why 666 is a devil of a day
Judy Skatssoon ABC Science Online Tuesday, 6 June 2006 Today is the sixth day of the sixth month of the year 2006. Boil it down and you’ve got 666, the number of the beast according to the Bible’s book of Revelation, which prophecies the end of the world. But if the date is enough to […]
King Lear’s Madness
Renaissance Views of Madness: King Lear By Adrian Ingham, December 1996 ——————————————————————————– The essay that follows was researched and written by Adrian Ingham as part of the course on Shakespeare by Individual Studies, 1996; it is reprinted here with his permission. While copyright is retained by Adrian Ingham, this material may freely be used for […]
Fathers and Daughters
[You] have all heard of the fellow who went to see Hamlet and came out saying ‘That was rubbish. Some bloke just wandered round the stage quoting Shakespeare.’ A joke – but not entirely so. Even those who have never read or seen a Shakespeare play are likely to be familiar with a few of […]
Doubt
Alison Croggon – MTC: Doubt 11 April 2006 It is almost impossible to think about Doubt without being aware of the context in which it is written – that is, post-9/11 America. John Patrick Shanley’s play is the first in a proposed trilogy that examines troubling dimensions of contemporary US society. And it obviously struck […]
The Phenomenon of Man
The Phenomenon of Man | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in “The Phenomenon of Manâ€, wrote an enormously influential book. First published in French in 1955, it is still very much alive in theological circles today. In fact, a great deal of modern theology is likely to fall into place […]
Critics lash Da Vinci Code
May 17, 2006 The Da Vinci Code drew lukewarm praise, shrugs of indifference, some jeering laughter and a few derisive jabs today from arguably the world’s toughest movie crowd: critics at the Cannes Film Festival. The year’s most anticipated movie, The Da Vinci Code was a generally faithful adaptation of Dan Brown’s monster best seller, […]
Best Christian Music?
One person wrote: it’s easy to pick apart others, but i am always looking for folks opinions on who is a good lyric writer from a christian in this era. anyone? Mark responded: U2 – http://www.lyricsfreak.com/u/u2/ U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals and guitar, The Edge (David Howell […]
Mood, Polity and Populism
Well-Being Australia Chairman M. V. Tronson the Australian Cricket Chaplain of 22 years suggests that mood and polity are inevitably linked and moreover polity may follow mood in sentiment but not necessarily in reality. “Mood is felt by the sinews of the soul, mood is discerned, mood has a temperature, mood is gauged intuitively and […]
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