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Rebuilding

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For more about it: The Madman and the Cathedral

Trust the Force this Easter

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And If It Was The Other Way?

A director who shares the ideas of Iran's hardline president has produced what he says is the first film giving an Islamic view of Jesus Christ, in a bid to show the "common ground" between Muslims and Christians.

Nader Talebzadeh sees his movie, "Jesus, the Spirit of God," as an Islamic answer to Western productions like Mel Gibson's 2004 blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ," which he praised as admirable but quite simply "wrong". {continue...}

[HT: The Wittenburg Door]

Interior Decor

Now when we go to the small group gathering I always sit where I can see it, and I do stare at it catching new things I hadn’t seen before. It’s like we have this secret relationship, this picture and I. It makes me smile whenever I see it, and I still don’t completely know why. {enter in...}

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What's Your Strategy?



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[via Allan Tan's Blog]

A Horrific Figure

...the figures are infantalizing. One thing to have small little tear shaped children shaped figurines, but when those tear chaped infants are mining for coal, or dressed in camo, it starts to get creepy. In fact, that particular one struck me as a horrific figure, rather than tribute to our military. Who turns an infant into a soldier?

After viewing a few hundred of the little things, we both felt a sense of sadness, as if these figurines were an expression of deep loss.

[via Streak's Blog]

"God Send Us A Signal"- Hammock (Raising Your Voice...Trying To Stop An Echo)



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[From Station VIII of Tributes for Kings: The Stations of the Cross by Kevin Rolly]

Don’t…
If there are tears
let them fall for you

The clouds of my eyes part
to see what you cannot
Oh there will be a time
when you wished that
wombs were barren trees

The world is tearing in two
because of me

Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
You will become a garden of flame

Winter…winter…
and the fleeing of bare feet on jagged stone
crash upon you

the mountains
weeping to the sea

Will You Pass Over?

Image by Br. Robert Lentz, ofm [more images]
Commentary featured at Trinity Stores

Captive Daughter of Zion

For centuries Christians have called Mary the Ark of the Covenant. As they used other Jewish titles for her, seldom have they accepted the fact that she was a Jew.

If Mary had lived in Nazi Germany, Mary would have been thrown into a concentration camp with other members of her race. Jewish Mary is the archetype of the Christian church,...

In this icon Mary wears a large yellow Star of David with the word "Jew" on her left shoulder. The Nuremberg Laws forced all Jews in Nazi territories to wear this badge. Jesus is wearing a paper shawl over his Byzantine garments and is holding the Torah. The Hebrew inscription at the bottom of the icon reads: "Captive Daughter of Zion," and is taken from Isaiah 52.2, a text in which God promises to deliver Israel from bondage. In the background is the barbed wire fence of a concentration camp.

Lynching Heritage?

From the post: My New Favorite Photo. [via The Thinkery, HT: Ponderings on a Faith Journey]

Heartfelt Incision





picture featured at Prodigal Daughter

Music: Cut - Plumb

Art by Farid De La Ossa. Seen here at Shawna R. B. Atteberry

Kraftwerk Kometenmelodie 1 1974