Notes 81

It isn't surprising that Christians don't love one another. It is surprising that they don't pretend to love one another.

I beg of you, please punish me, and not others, for my sins.

Circles of Swastikas

“The Swastika is mistakenly thought to be an emblem of particularly Eastern or Aryan origin. It is found in the ideography of many different tribes, and children left to themselves with paper and pencil arrive at it readily when decorating squares. (Fylfot, gammadion, Encycl. Brit. 14th ed., VII, 260 a.)”
—Jacques Barzun, Race: A Study in Superstition


Circles of Ankhs
 

Christian Carnival LIII

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Christian Carnival LII at Intolerant Elle
Christian Carnival: 2005 No. 1 at Weapon of Mass Distraction
The Last Christian Carnival of 2004 at MediaSoul
Christian Carnival: Christmas Edition at Patriot Paradox.
Christian Carnival XLVIII at Parableman.
Christian Carnival XLVII at TheGodBlog.com
Christian Carnival XLVI at A Physicist's Perspective
Christian Carnival XLV at CowPi Journal
Christian Carnival XLIV at ChristWeb
Christian Carnival XLIII at Digitus, Finger & Co

Notes 80

The courage to say, Thy will be done.

Cross 2002

A Java applet.

Cross 2001

Catholic Carnival XIII

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The Catholic Carnival #12: Strong in Faith at Living Catholicism
Catholic Carnival #11 at CowPi Journal
The Catholic Carnival: Holiday Edition at Living Catholicism
Catholic Carnival IX at A Penitent Blogger
The Eighth Catholic Carnival at Living Catholicism.
Catholic Carnival—Advent Edition at Dunmoose the Ageless
The Sixth Catholic Carnival at Happy Catholic
The Fifth Catholic Carnival at Living Catholicism
The Fourth Catholic Carnival at Dunmoose the Ageless
The Third Catholic Carnival at Living Catholicism
The Second Catholic Carnival—On the Eucharist at The Curt Jester
The First Catholic Carnival at Living Catholicism

Notes 79

Your ways are not our ways. Is your love not our love?

I do not love an impassive God.

For Christians it is self-defeating not to love.

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On the morning of January 17, 1941, Thomas R. Kelly “exclaimed to Lael Kelly: ‘Today will be the greatest day of my life.’ While drying dishes that evening after supper, he suffered a massive heart attack and was dead within moments.”—Richard M. Kelly, Thomas Kelly: A Biography (New York: Harper, 1966).

Homage to the Square

A Java applet after Josef Albers

Romano Guardini, “The Dissolution of the Modern World”:

There may be possibilities for fresh experience within the new nature. The tasks facing man might imply that the boundaries of his experience can be extended, that an immense universe of reality formerly unexperienced in its effects was now being open to man. The work confronting man might also imply that a kind of indirect experience was coming into the world, whereby that which had been only abstract thought was now being absorbed into the living experience of man. Note: The endeavor here involved may be an approach to an abstract art, insofar as abstract art is really “art” and not simply naked experimentation or distorted reproduction.