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Pas de Deux by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Coptic Christians in Taree are delighted to have their own local church, previously travelling to Sydney congregations.(ABC News: Emma Siossian)

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People sometimes say that God becomes clearer in moments of suffering, but this is not necessarily true. What becomes clear is one's longing for God. Everything is stripped away, and very little else seems to matter.

Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman, Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian

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“The stars, the mountains, the sea, and all the things that speak to us of time, convey God’s supplication to us. By waiting humbly we are made similar to God. God is the only good. That is why he is waiting there in silence. Anyone who comes forward and speaks is using a little force. The good which is nothing but good can only stand waiting. Beggars who are modest are images of Him.”

— Simone Weil, “The Things of the World”

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Royal funeral rites from medieval manuscripts

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Saint Margaret by Ksenia Dronova

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Cameron Clark, "After the Flood, Only the Blind Poet Was Left to Give Things Their Names"

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Every statement about God is provisional (including this one). On our last walk we talked some of Gianni Vattimo and his theory that nihilism is the ultimate expression of Christ's life and message. I find this more provocative and helpful than you do, though I do think "nihilism" is the wrong word (love survives in Vattimo’s schema), and I don't really think that nihilism is the final fruition of Christ and his message, because there is no "final" fruition to be had. But to think of Christ as the "great unmasker," as Vattimo puts it, to think of his life as God's complete assent to the incarnation, that is, to be completely material—might not this be seen as a development of Bonhoeffer's ideas of a religionless Christianity? Bonhoeffer didn’t want to do away with the church—he was an orthodox Lutheran pastor, for goodness' sake. It was metaphysics that Bonhoeffer wanted to be freed from—in essence, it was that wholly internal movement of "faith" that Luther described and demanded. As Bonhoeffer writes,

"God would have us know that we must live as men who manage our lives without him. The god who is with us is the god who forsakes us. The God who lets us live in the world without the working hypothesis of God is the God before whom we stand continually. Before God and with God we live without God. God lets himself be pushed out of the world on to the cross. He is weak and powerless in the world, and that is precisely the way, the only way, in which he is with us and helps us."

Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman, Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian

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Péricopes des Evangiles. Introduites

Enluminure de Robinet Testard, entre 1480 et 1496, Angoulême, France

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Fragment of art depicting Saint Anne, 8th-9th century C.E., discovered in Faras, Sudan

Inscription reads: "Anna, mother of the mother of God." x

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Fidel Castro giving a speech in Havana, following victory over Batista, has a dove land on his shoulder. from Estela Bravo's Fidel: The Untold Story

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Fidel Castro with a delegation from Palestine. Havana, 1980s🇵🇸🇨🇺

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via flickr

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"Medieval Christians would have gone nuts for protons, neutrons, and electrons for trinity reasons" sounds like a jokey oversimplification historypost but I cannot really articulate how true that is. They would never shut up about it.

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RIP St Thomas Aquinas you would have loved atomic physics