Baroque Board

Paul (Saint), Outside Corinth.

Down at Bragg's Baroque

God of the Airwaves, Melvyn Bragg, has recently devoted an hour of In Our Time to the baroque. You can listen to it here

left behind

welcome to the world of christian apocalypse fiction, ie fundamentalist pop culture.
Watch the video on YouTube >
my favorite recommended selection in the youtube sidebar: 'Barack Obama... we almost stopped him'

It's not too late to change your essay topic!

http://www.lolsaints.com/story/2009-02-15/lessee-milk-eggz-cheezeburgerz

Better than "St Paul and knife crime", right?

workspace

what's your workspace? Post it here.

Messianic Space

"To be sure, the term drawing is a misnomer, because the Shakers did not use it themselves when they were referring to these works. In the few Shaker documents in which the gift drawings are mentioned, they are typically referred to as sheets, rolls, signs, notices, tokens of love, presents, rewards, hearts — sometimes prefaced by the adjective sacred. This definition focuses on the function of the works as gifts from heavenly spirits, rather than on the form in which the gifts were materialized. In fact, the gift drawings often include titles, captions, inscriptions, and extended texts, in English as well as in scripts written in indecipherable tongues, that place them on an uninterrupted continuum with other manifestations of belief, such as inspired writing, ecstatic movement, and spontaneous speech, especially in the form of song." (France Morin, in Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs, The Drawing Center, New York, and UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001)

Christian Zionism

Disambiguation: (mostly) North American, Fundamentalist, (Tele)Evangelical Christians.

Although this probably does nothing to improve the image of America's religious believers, it does seem necessary to make connection explicit. When the rapture comes, you can blame it on John Hagee...









http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060814/new_christian_zionism

http://www.christianzionism.org/

http://christianactionforisrael.org/czionism.html

Love Thy Neighbor (P.L.U.R.)

Circa 1989, the study of St. Paul was revived in Chicago. All documents were published by Trax Records (sorry, no Stanford University).