The end of faith? Bring it
And he went away grieving, for he had many possessions. Anonymous, Jesus and the Rich Man, 11th century. Image source: Index of Armenian Art By all appearances, the end is near. That’s what the scientists are telling us, anyway. It seems that a group of specialists in the (really cool) field of nonlinear dynamics have [...]
Repost: An ash heap with a view
Oldřich Kulhánek, Job No. 1. Lithograph (2002) This post was published first on 14 September 2010. It seems appropriate for today, Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. The Old Testament books of Wisdom are among my favorites in the Christian canon (they are also present in the Hebrew Scriptures). [...]
Awake, my Sol
Sol in action. Captured in the ultraviolet by SDO, this movie shows an erupting solar prominence and covers about 90 minutes (24 seconds per frame). This may make one think the prominence moves pretty slowly, but scale is important here: Placed side-to-side, about 20 Earths could fit across the frame. So this curtain of ionized [...]
Introducing Art Sundays
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Today Pastor Julie preached a beautiful sermon on being open to new things. So we’re thinking it’s a great day to start a new thing. It is Transfiguration Sunday, the day Christians worldwide remember the story of Christ’s metamorphosis before the eyes of Peter, James, and [...]
The life-giving vision of Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence, Eight Studies for the Book of Genesis, No. 7: “And God Created Man and Woman,” 1989-90. Source: Landau Traveling Exhibitions Discussions about science and religion can get awfully tedious. This is not a reflection on my respected interlocutors on these and other pages, but on the state of my own poor mind. It’s [...]
Smelling the flowers just quietly: Ferdinand on life
Ferdinand loves flowers, and for all the right reasons. A scene from Munro Leaf‘s classic children’s book The Story of Ferdinand. Ferdinand, unlike his peers, has no interest in butting his head and “sticking his horns around”; he prefers to spend his days sitting “under the cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly.” Image source: [...]
Hovercraft Jesus and the problem of love
There are rules here at psnt.net. One of them is: There shall be no posts even remotely related to Justin Bieber or his mom. Another one is: Never post images that flash, make noise, or move. But when we saw this sweet animated gif, our resistance proved futile. Image source: lol god As many of [...]
A bright new decalogue for a bright new world. We smile
Marc Chagall, Moses Receiving the Tablets of the Law, 1957. Image source: Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University I used to live in Rome, a small conservative town in Georgia. One of the great delights of living in a place like Rome is the local religious color. I remember there was one guy that drove [...]
Is the whole thing in there?
The Tutor, from your friends at The Highpants Resistance. No children were harmed in the making of this video. This may not be the best way to teach the Bible to children. But it’s all in there. And for those who don’t know already, the Good Book gets much more brutal and misogynistic than the [...]
We like Gus
Icon of Augustine of Hippo, provenance unknown. Image source: allmercifulsavior.com Recently, Our Man in Kentucky* Al Mohler posted an article on his blog explaining just how important it is that all Christians reject evolution outright, without exception or qualification. His reason? Evolution contradicts scripture. He writes, I am willing to accept the authority of science [...]
