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Can You be Rational and Religious?

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question. That the Roman Empire collapsing imperiled documentary survival intriques me. English Wikipedia invoked the daughter-library Serapeum for the Library ...

DerdriuMarriner, 12 hours ago

English Hedges

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question. It interests me that western and Indian Christians respectively make Our Lady Mary blue- and dark-eyed. There might be a reconciliation so that both ...

DerdriuMarriner, 13 hours ago

Conisbrough Castle

The second paragraph in your introduction advises us that "There was an earlier Saxon fortification on the site" that now conserves Conisbrough Castle. Is anything known about the fortification and its owners and residents? Might fortification ...

DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago

Facing Chronic Illness in a Christian Way

Yes indeed. The religious life is full of love, but it is not easy

frankbeswick, 1 day ago

Into Thin Air: the Shepton Mallet Mystery

Maybe.but I suspect revenge.

frankbeswick, 1 day ago

Who Goes to Heaven

They were routine cream and jam.

frankbeswick, 1 day ago

Why I am a Christian

Yes, darkness is sometimes a time for quiet prayer

frankbeswick, 1 day ago

Facing Chronic Illness in a Christian Way

The second paragraph to the first subheading, The situation, advises us that "Part of a Christian response to illness is not to let it prevent you from serving others, though your service must adapt." That statement causes me to consider the ...

DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago

Edale, Derbyshire. England

Thank you for your comment below Sep. 2, 2017, in answer to my previous, same-day question. English Wikipedia describes Irish breakfast tea as a red-colored black tea, likelier Assam than Ceylon. It likewise designates that tea as so strong as ...

DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago

Into Thin Air: the Shepton Mallet Mystery

The third paragraph to the second subheading, Suggestions about what happened, advises us that "One possibility is that there were people in South West Britain who were skilled in quick abductions, a skill that they had honed in snatching black ...

DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago

Who Goes to Heaven

Thank you for your comment below on Jan. 24, 2024, in answer to my previous question Jan. 23, 2024. Online sources generally approach French fancies as sponge cake covered with buttercream and icing. Perhaps they describe quite sweet ...

DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago

Magna Carta, the facts, myths and legends briefly

It interests me that Magna Carta is a three-way interaction of barons, Church and king. It impels me to mull why no societal money- and power-holders between barons and king merited mention. Might King John have been leaving viscounts, ...

DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago

Why I am a Christian

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous question. Liminal places appear quite recognizable if they associate with land and water, light and dark, sky and earth. And yet dark components can be part of religiously, spiritually ...

DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago

Messages of Puss in Boots

The caption You don't have to wear your own clothes to look better to the sixth subheading, The clothes make the man, amuses me. At the same time, the in-text image above it by Henri Thiriet (Jul 4, 1873-Jun 10, 1946) appears among my favorite ...

DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago

Why I am a Christian

No. Liminal places are the zonescwhere different elements meet. Light and darkness, land andbwaterbsky and earth.

frankbeswick, 1 day ago