By Bry Willis There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;Sign was painted, it said private property;But on the back side it didn’t say nothing;This land was made for you and me. Woody Guthrie . “The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land,…
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Christianity
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Discourse on the Logos
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…
Bryan Greetham
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Obituary: Bryan Greetham, teacher, writer and thinker
By Pat Rowe Bryan Greetham (1946-2022) the writer and thinker, died on Sunday 26th June in Estepona, Spain. Above all, Bryan wanted to help students of all ages be the best thinkers possible. Bryan was born in Faversham, Kent. He failed the 11 plus exam and went to a secondary…
Phil Hall
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An Easter-Passover-Eid reflection: Why is everything the way it is?
Not-God is simply not enough. By Philip Hall The alternative to God is not Not-God. Rather it is something INSTEAD of God. But then what in heaven’s name would that be? Applying Ockham’s razor must not produce an absurdity. You cannot dispense with the notion of God without producing an…
Consciousness
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Material Monism: Just One Thing…
Mathematics, Substance, Consciousness by Martin Clewett There are hundreds of theoretical physicists thinking about how to properly construct a mathematical description of the universe consistent with all the measurements we have so far made of it. Properly means the mathematical description must produce new predictions that can be checked. There…
Catholicism
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The philosophy of Iris Murdoch
by Jon Elsby During her lifetime, Iris Murdoch was probably better known – and more highly esteemed – as a novelist than as a philosopher. Privately, Isaiah Berlin once called her ‘a lady not noted for the clarity of her ideas’.’ Yet she taught philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford…
cinematography
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Personal Tragedies in Rodrigo Hasbún’s Los afectos
by Kathryn A. Kopple In 2015, the Bolivian writer Rodrigo Hasbún published Los afectos (Affections), a slim volume loosely based on the Ertl family, a clan foisted on the reader with precious little introduction. “The day papa returned from Nanga Parbat (with some heart-rending images, of a beauty that wasn’t…
Matthew Taylor
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In the end, are religion and science compatible?
Does the answer lie in the ideas of Teilhard de Chardin? By Matthew Taylor In 2014, Pope Francis confirmed that the idea of the expanding universe (the Big Bang) and Evolution are both true and compatible with Christian belief. At a meeting at the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for the Sciences,…
Capitalism
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Road of Dreams
Socialism? What are we talking about? By Dominic Tweedie The communists mean to show the way – as a vanguard – through revolution, to a classless, stateless condition called communism. The agent of revolution is not a communist party. Since the 1840s, communists have said that the principal agent of…
Bryan Greetham
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We Were Caught in the Neo-liberal Trap
But now we have another pivotal moment. By Bryan Greetham Before the Second World War a German chemist was working to discover what we would call today an antibiotic. Each evening he would leave out Petri dishes with bacteria in them so they could grow during the night for him…
Capitalism
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Humanity’s Rosy Fingered Dawn: 2020
By Phil Hall Covid-19 arrives, We sit at home for a long while. The cities empty, the air clears and bird song seems louder. Translucent jellyfish float up the canal and goats clop through a Welsh hill town. We all see these things presented artistically on slim screens. We, the…
Covid-19
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To the undertakers
By Yogesh Patel To the undertakers A preview of myself is a hidden mirror in a selfie mirror. I have always been brutal on the soliloquising Houdini! Yet, I have kept vultures at bay in this Dakhma. The undertakers have always risen from their graves to offer flowers. Tagore’s Kabuliwala…
Communism
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Mon Oncle
By Paul Halas On my very infrequent visits to Paris, passing Drancy Station on the RER suburban line between Orly Airport and Paris is always a poignant experience. My Uncle Ladis – Ladislaw – spent some time there during World War Two.In 1966, as a seventeen year old, I had…
Brexit
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How to defeat Covid-19
By Phil Hall In China the barefoot doctors believed in prevention rather than cure. So how can we make societies like ours more resilient to pandemic infections like Covid-19? Well, we could advocate for a more humane society. That would make us much more resilient. We could guarantee a fully…
Philosophy
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Why?
“we hope we have not cast a Pearl before the swine, but set a glass before the grateful doves.” From Robert Turner 12 March 1656 make my tongue as a sharp knife to ever express a special eloquence these things, words – my tongue like an arrow Incipit expositio dictae orationis….
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