As all of us know, 2020 has been a very difficult year, not just in terms of health restrictions but also in terms of the psychological and economic impact of these restrictions. With that in mind, I’d like to share with you how these restrictions have affected my work and the work with the children…
To see the world. Ah, that’s the thing. So I wait and hope soon to be off again.
I recently listened to an excellent lecture by Elaine Ruffolo, an art historian, who spoke about Michelangelo’s women (the title of the lecture available on YouTube). In it she points out that the center of the paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is not God’s creation of Adam (perhaps the most famous of the Sistine…
One of my readers replied to my recent article about “Losing.” I thought it was insightful enough to be widely published. Here it is: All the goings-on in the States reduces the society to the non-society of suspicion, slavery, spies, and policing, as you so well said. It is a repetition of pre-war and WWII…
We lost! I don’t mean Biden won or Trump won. It doesn’t really matter because the real loss is far greater than who will be President for the next four years. What we lost is bāṭaḥ. You know the word (I hope). It is translated “trust,” and in every circumstance except Proverbs 31:11, whenever it describes human…
Our recent trip to Venice confirmed that unless COVID restrictions are lifted soon, this wonderful experience will become a memory of the past. Virtually all the gondoliers are going out of business, many after generations of plying the waters of Venice.
Gutenberg destroyed the Bible. Yes, he was the one who made it publicly available in the common language of the time, but in the process he converted the Bible from an audible message to black and white text. In the Christian world, the Bible has never recovered. It became a book rather than story told…
