CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR: THE DEMISE OF THE SON OF MAN As the Roman soldiers led Jesus away, they seized Simon from Cyrene (a Roman colony on the north coast of Africa). Simon was a Diaspora Jew on his way to the festival, coming in from the hill country where he had spent the night, having…

R?dley Scott has a penchant for mak?ng b?g mov?es w?th sweep and grandeur and th?s ?s definitely one of them despi?te some of the ludite cr?t?cs reviews who either don’t much know or don’t much care about English h?story.  This mov?e has all the elements of a truly great fi?lm:  1) excellent actors at the…

Although I am not generally given to hyperbole, the new museum of the Parthenon in Athens deserves every awe-inspiring adjective I can muster. The brain child of architect Bernard Tschumi’s creative mind,  it stands, as the Financial Times recently said like a huge space ship that landed right behind and below the Parthenon.  Here are…

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