It’s the Season
Tulips are coming to Holland. I thought you’d like to see some in our local market. Just have a wonderful, colorful day today.
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Spring Is Coming
Today in Parma. Oh, and the main street in town.
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Pay Attention
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….
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St. Petersburg
I know it’s Shabbat, but I thought you might like to see this beautiful work on such a lovely day.
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Scare Tactics
Somewhere 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.
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God of All Nations
Experiencing 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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