I was just thinking: wouldn’t it be fun to have a spot to feature artifacts, documents, persons, architecture, anything concrete related to my historical fiction set in ancient Babylon and Persia? Perhaps provide a wee bit of commentary, maybe how the things fit into the story,…? In the absence of any nay-sayers (admittedly none nearby …
Marc Chagall was in his 90s when he created a series of stained glass windows, which decades later still draw thousands of visitors each month to the top of a hill in Mainz, Germany. They grace a cathedral, of all things, and that built originally to serve the Holy Roman Empire. It was then vicar …
The bard’s “Show Me the Place” song on his new album titled Old Ideas lent an ethereal air to a prosaic errand this morning. The hound I brought home over ten years ago, starving, cut up, and covered in ticks is aging fast, and we’re trying to keep him comfortable. But about a week ago, …
Wow, just when I thought: enough with KJV’s bday, “66 Books” comes along. A dramatic project launching the new Bush theater in London, it’s 66 short plays based on the books of the King James Bible. How I wish I could be there! Jeanette Winterson on Genesis. Full creative license. Imagine the possibilities. What a …
Saw “The Book of Mormon” on Broadway last night! Between the laughs, horror, and sweetly poignant moments, it got me thinking: what is religion for? Yes, the show is hilarious, brilliant, shocking, and incredibly well performed and produced. That we got tickets at all is its own small miracle… or another example of my husband’s capacity to amaze. …
There’s a new game in town. Finally, a video game based on biblical, or sort-of-biblical, stories. Bible-reading folks frequently say that there are really great stories in the Bible; but what they usually mean is that its stories instruct, correct, or otherwise inform the ways that people should live. Sure, there are such didactic texts; but …
The gospels say almost nothing about what Jesus looked like. Some days ago, I mused here on the matter of Jesus’ “second coming.” I threw out the thought: why should Christians (believing Jesus to be God) presume that Jesus should be limited by anything, even including human appearance? Yet we often get most excited about determining …
What if Jesus has already come back or is even coming back all the time? That the first generation of Jesus’ followers expected the Parousia or “second coming” during their own lifetimes is certain. They were sure, based on Jesus’ teachings and their own, first-hand knowledge of him that it would happen. At least that’s how the …
Ai yai yai. A new series looking to biblical women for role models. Between that and Michele Bachmann’s latest: presidential hopeful who is submissively obedient to husband in all things, well,… Scott Bailey’s blog post can get you started: http://scotteriology.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/epic-fail-real-housewives-of-the-bible/
Did you know that the second most quoted book (second to the Good Book, of course) is Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind? Me neither. But I learned that from author Ellen F. Brown last Friday at Over the Moon bookstore in Crozet, Virginia. Ellen, with John Wiley, Jr., recently published Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind: A Bestseller’s …
