We drove around today visiting Poundbury, a town created by Prince Charles. More of that later. On our return we passed by Castle Carey and visited the museum The visit to Castle Cary Museum provided a lively introduction to the history and character of the town, from prehistoric times through to the present day. The museum itself is deliberately traditional — more a “cabinet of curiosities”...
Things That Depress Me There are many things in modern society that leave me feeling discouraged or saddened. Some concern politics, others culture, and others simply the way people relate to one another. Whether or not others share these views, they are the issues that weigh most heavily on my mind. I feel uneasy about what I see as a growing separation between traditional Christianity and the...
I know people who ‘read’ enormously, book for book, letter for letter, yet whom I would not describe as ‘well-read.’ True, they possess a mass of ‘knowledge,’ but their brain is unable to organize and register the material they have taken in. They lack the art of sifting what is valuable for them in a book from that which is without value, of retaining the one forever, and, if possible, not even...
Few symbols appear more frequently or carry greater theological significance in the New Testament than the heart. Modern Western culture tends to associate the heart primarily with emotions or romantic love. The New Testament, however, presents a far deeper understanding. The heart is the centre of human personality, encompassing the mind, the will, the conscience, the emotions, and the spirit....
Here is a 1,000-word essay suitable for an academic or theological audience. Among the many symbols employed in the New Testament, few are as rich and multilayered as the eye. Although the eye is a physical organ of sight, it is repeatedly used by Jesus and the New Testament writers as a metaphor for spiritual perception, moral discernment, inner character, faith, and the condition of the human...
NB this is a transcript of a Youtube video Edgar Cayce revealed something before he died that no one dared to publish widely. Something that has been kept hidden for decades in archives that ordinary people never examine, something that researchers, theologians, and scientists have read in silence and preferred not to discuss publicly. It is not a prophecy about earthquakes. It is not a warning...
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