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Fox News Host Never Asked Baptist College Professor Why He Wrote Book About Islam
Following up on the earlier post where Lauren Green at Fox made a thorough fool of herself… While host Lauren Green, the main religion correspondent for Fox News, spent the interview asking Aslan about his Muslim faith, Green never asked… Continue reading
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The Sad Reality of White-on-White Violence
A frightening and violent mob swept through the normally quiet seaside community of Huntington Beach last night following a surfing competition in the area. Businesses were vandalized and looted, portable toilets overturned, and brutal fistfights waged right out in the… Continue reading
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Son of Man: Scott Korb on Reza Aslan’s “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” | Los Angeles Review of BooksLos Angeles Review of Books
…Zealot is a biography and history of early Christianity whose central premise is that to understand who Jesus was we must better understand the world he lived in. This is Roman Palestine, an occupied land. The first third of Aslan’s… Continue reading
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Combative Fox Interviewer Gets Destroyed by Religious Scholar Reza Aslan | RYOT News
I find that I get more from reading Esquire, Truthout, and even some blogs than I get from watching journalism on any of the news networks. So while I am not a great friend of the global financial news networks–CNN,… Continue reading
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The Power Of Art – Picasso | BBC
Born in Malaga, Spain, Picasso’s many styles and prolific work rate have marked him out as one of the most recognised artists of the twentieth century. Not limited to one medium he created sculptures, etchings and prints. His artistic career… Continue reading
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Interview with Matt Bors: Drawing Terrible Things Without Causing Despair | Truthout
Truthout has been publishing Matt Bors‘ cartoons for more than a year now, and we’re not the only ones who have taken notice of him. Bors has won awards for his editorial cartooning including the Herblock Prize and the Society… Continue reading
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Easter Island
William Hodges painting of Easter Island Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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The Grammar Of Pictures
Originally posted on The Dish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDXlA_6usI Martin Scorsese underscores it: We’re face to face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before. And that’s why I believe we need to stress visual literacy in our… Continue reading
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Water derives lucidity from stillness
Originally posted on Zen Flash: If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind. The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, a reflection of all creation. ~ Chuang… Continue reading
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Junior High Creative Writing Activity: A Fractured Fairy Tale
Originally posted on Teacher as Transformer: Children hear and read fairy tales at a young age. When they reach late elementary and junior high school age, they can explore and discover inconsistencies in fairy tales i.e. Goldilocks breaks into the… Continue reading
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John Koch
John Koch was dismissed by the more progressive art scene as a society painter. He was little known outside his circle of wealthy, connected patrons. But time has a way of revealing something pleasurable that may have been ignored at… Continue reading
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Kelli
Originally posted on Drive All Night: Traveling to Denton, Texas represented two “firsts” for me. It was my first time visiting the Lone Star state beyond the security perimeter of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, and also my first face-to-face meeting with… Continue reading
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Death and myth (Aesculapius)
Originally posted on Unanimous Tradition / Tradición Unánime: Concerning the myth of or Aesculapius or Asclepios, the Greek god of the medical arts, there is a fundamental idea underlying it and many other myths (like those of Cassandra, Sisyphus, Cassiopeia,… Continue reading
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The Internet’s Vigilante Justice
Originally posted on The Dish: Laura Hudson worries about it: Shaming, it seems, has become a core competency of the Internet, and it’s one that can destroy both lives and livelihoods. But the question of who’s responsible for the destruction —… Continue reading
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