by Michael Dunn | Sep 18, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions, Video Games
Some years ago, a scandal broke out over whether a young man was cheating in an international chess tournament. Nobody knew for sure, but the strange goings-on suggested other forces at work. In December 2012, a 25 year old man from Bulgaria, Borislav Ivanov, turned...
by Colin Miller | Sep 7, 2020 | Articles, Bible
About twelve years ago in a coal mine over half a mile deep beneath Donetsk, in Ukraine, workers found a wheel embedded in the hard sandstone, reckoned by geologists to be about 300 million years old. The original wood from which the wheel had been made had turned to...
by Michael Dunn | Sep 3, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Visual Arts
Saint Paul wrote that we could see and understand God’s eternal power and divine nature through the things he had made. 1 Through painting, artists can help us uncover such things for ourselves. One example is a picture of the highest mountain in the Grampian ranges,...
by Jean-Philippe Marceau | Aug 28, 2020 | Bible, Liturgy, Theory
On a first reading, Saint Luke’s account of Christ’s appearance on the road to Emmaus 1 is puzzling to Christians and non-Christians alike. Luke describes two anonymous disciples discussing Christ’s death and disappearance from the tomb. Interestingly, when the...
by Christian Roy | Aug 6, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions, Theory, Visual Arts
We tend to forget that the advent of the Atomic Age, with the destruction of Hiroshima in a single bomb blast 75 years ago on August 6, 1945, was not greeted with dread so much as with wonder at mankind’s near-divine power over matter. For it was thought that man was...
by Michael Dunn | Jul 27, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions
Be astonished: a beautiful woman, beheaded 1,700 years ago, still lives. She is the patron of miners, tunnellers, armourers, military engineers, artillerymen, gunsmiths and those who handle explosives. People put up her effigy at the entrance to tunnels and mines, and...
