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Theodore May
Church attendance in the U.S. is declining. Fewer people identify as religious and fewer of those who still do attend church. Don’t take my word for it. See this poll from Gallup. This shift is also clearly generational. The universal panacea for generational disaffection and engagement today? More Tech! So, we are overwhelmed with…
The Public Reading of Scripture in Schools
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Theodore May
A headline in the Christian Science Monitor caught my attention: More public schools are embracing the Bible. Is it literature, or religion? The article is by Chelsea Sheasley and Patrik Jonsson. Good. IMHO, study of the Bible should be included as an elective in public schools. I think the study of the Koran and the…
Read scripture the way we see Fra Angelico
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Theodore May
A recent article in The Paris Review caught my attention. Cody Delistraty describes his visit to a convent/museum on the Piazza San Marco in Florence, Italy that houses a collection of Fra Angelico frescos: Fra Angelico’s Divine Emotion These paintings, by the proto-Renaissance painter, Fra Angelico, adorn the rooms of what were once monastic…
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