Time for a sabbatical
Vasiliy Koren, God Reposing on the Sabbath (1696). Woodcut from the first engraved Christian Bible in Russian. I’m not God, but I do need a rest. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Dear Alert Readers, I am nearing the completion of my MDiv and life and schoolwork are piling up quickly. Therefore I’ll be taking a sabbatical [...]
Percy’s conundrum
Walker Percy (1916-1990). Image source: Wikipedia. Here’s a wonderful excerpt on Percy from HiLoBrow (“middlebrow’s not the solution”): “So, if you want to be Walker Percy, here’s what you do: have a father (whose own father committed suicide) who shoots himself with a shotgun when you’re twelve. Have a mother who might or might not [...]
Art Sunday: Stories and numbers meet in the theater of the sky
Stanislaw Lubieniecki, Theatrum cometicum (The Theater of Comets). Amsterdam, 1666-68. Here, the sea monster Cetus seems ready to chow down on some comet. Image source: Out of this World from the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology. The interested reader will also want to investigate Thinking Outside the Sphere, another fine online exhibition [...]
