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Today I was in the Duomo in Parma, using a long telephoto to get pictures of the details in the ceiling. Since the Duomo is perhaps 60 feet from floor to ceiling, and it’s always dark, I knew I would find something there that you wouldn’t usually see. Low and behold, here are two examples….
Read MoreSomewhere in most churches in Italy (and maybe in all of Europe) you will find something like this. Since this depiction has been part of the church for centuries, you can well imagine why Heschel characterized Christianity as a religion of death rather than life.
Read MoreExperiencing the power of pagan worship in other parts of the world makes it possible to appreciate just how difficult it was for Paul and the disciples to speak about the one true God in the first century Roman Empire. The same family-civil cult continues today, as evidenced by this photo I took just a…
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