New is Old… and Old is New
“The new religion [Christianity, which was NOT our’s] destroyed almost all trace of the old [which was].”—Catherine Hills, The Anglo-Saxon …
Category Archives: Christianity
The New… and the Old
“The new religion destroyed almost all trace of the old.”—Catherine Hills, The Anglo-Saxon Settlement of England, from The History and …
Life … Without (Uber) Metaphor
Can we do it? Can we live without the backstory, the underpinning of … God, for want of another term? …
Je Suis… Omphalos
Forgiveness is the word for all. Here at the Cafe we don’t take sides. The world says a crime has …
A Fragment of Biology
“History is a fragment of biology—the human moment in the pageantry of species.”—Will Durant, The Age of Louis XIV A …
A Larger Experience of God
“You have to go past the imagined image of Jesus. Such an image of one’s god becomes a final obstruction, …
A Sacred Grove…. (Past and Present)
No, I’m not talking about my own personal sacred grove here at the Cafe, though for me that’s precisely what …
Reflections From Outside the Circle…
“They are stuck with their metaphor and don’t realize it’s reference. They haven’t allowed the circle that surrounds them to …
A Great Leap Forward…. Possibly
“The last time I saw him I asked him if he still believed—as he had once written—‘that we are at …
World of Wonders
“I’d like a language which is above all languages, a language to which all will do service. I cannot express …
