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The “Rending of the Heavens:” The Markan Critique of Modernity as a Basis for Hope

April 3, 2013
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The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea...

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Visions of Beauty: Lothlorien and the Power of Beauty

March 23, 2011
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There is something "perilous" about beauty and we are aware at some deep level of intuition or, better yet, at some vague awareness of a moral reality or "calling" that Beauty has within it the power to "change" us at some profound and ontological level of our existence. To follow a "trail' that leads to "the Golden Wood" where one will knowingly encounter Beauty is one that requires courage and calls forth the...

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