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 …
Tag Archives: history
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 …
Ambition?
Chatted with an old friend last night. He finished university, became an engineer, married, moved to Florida and raised two …
The Hero’s Deed (Dead?)
Yeah, I’ve used this image before, but it’s the best I know of heroism today: battered and outdated. I photoshopped …
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, …
Life (on Earth) is ALL there is….
We’ve worked our way into a corner, on many fronts I suppose. The corner is in a library, and there …
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 …
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