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Posted on March 30, 2018March 29, 2018

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”

https://youtu.be/kMbGWPaXX8Y From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s reflections on the Seven Last Words: Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. In previous considerations we have studied the Life…

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Posted on March 30, 2018March 29, 2018

Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross: Introduction to reflections by R H Benson

For Good Friday, I am posting reflections by Robert Hugh Benson, the son of an (Anglican) Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Catholic priest and prolific writer before his early…

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Posted on March 29, 2018March 29, 2018

César Franck: Les Sept dernières paroles du Christ en Croix

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Posted on March 28, 2018

You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate (Flannery O’Connor)

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is…

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Posted on March 24, 2018

From “The State”, a short story by Tommy Orange

From The New Yorker, drawn from Orange’s forthcoming novel There There Before you were born, you were a head and a tail in a milky pool—a swimmer. You were a…

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Posted on March 17, 2018March 17, 2018

The value judgments of scientific acceptance rules

From “A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities”, Roy Sorensen: When I joined the philosophy department at Washington University in St Louis, I was pleased to see a room with the plaque:…

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Posted on March 15, 2018

2001: I am not a fan of Malcolm Gladwell. Review of “The Tipping Point” from The Lancet.

I actually quite enjoy Gladwell’s articles – a bit solutionist at times but he can tell a story well. Like many other books by New Yorker writers whose New Yorker…

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Posted on March 14, 2018

Review of “The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, The Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity”, Amir D Aczel, Lancet, 17th February 2001

Following on from a review of a book on Nabokov on butterflies, my second piece in a proper non-student publication was this review of Amir D Aczel’s book on George…

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