Reason without love and the imagination is a curse by Phil Hall In trying to understand the concept of the Logos I read how Pope Benedict described Christianity as the religion of the logos. ‘From the beginning, Christianity has understood itself as the religion of the Logos, as the religion…
Month: February 2023
Perspectives on Eichmann: Explaining Perpetrator Behaviour, by Andrew Elsby
Review by Arjay Frank Otto Adolf Eichmann (1906–62) has been the subject of a surprising number of studies, given that he was merely a middle-ranking officer in the Schutzstaffel (SS) – a lieutenant-colonel, in fact – and, as such, was responsible for carrying out the orders of others, and would…
Con’s Shakespearean Garden
Visits to the Merlin of Coombe Hill By Phil Hall Con lives in the house he was born into more than 60 years ago. Everyone notices it from the street; partly because it looks run down and partly because there are sometimes cats in the front garden. One of the…
Calaverita
Death came today and gave me some adviceShe said; ‘Good news: I’ve designed a special diet for you.If you follow my instructionsTwo years from now you’ll be as thin as I am.After all, isn’t your health the most important thing?And your own happiness must be your prime concern.If you know…
Russian Orthodoxy died, and it was not resurrected
It is one thing for religion to die on the vine, and it is another thing for it to be forcibly uprooted by Phil Hall One of the things that was obvious to anyone visiting Soviet Russia in 1984 was its emptiness. They pretended to have the answers initially, and,…
Editorial: Stop this Madness!
Stop the war in the Ukraine! ‘Do you know what I do to people who get in the way of me?’ asked the thuggish manager of a GAZOPROM plant sitting across the table from me. ‘No, what do you do to them?’ ‘I destroy them,’ He said. And he stared…
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