From the Archives - Poetry of Truth Part 137

Luke's apocalyptic background of the 'stone the builders rejected' - Daniel Ch 2, Nebuchadnezzar's dream.

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 136

Satellite image of mass graves in Bosnia.

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 135

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. - Luke 20:17

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 134

Jesus and the money changers...meddling with the sacrificial mechanism. Jesus is not attempting to reform the Temple, but replace it.
The parable of the wicked tenants.

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 133

"The ultimate stuff of being is communion" - Henri de Lubac

Jesus enters Jerusalem as the only one who knows what it means.

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 132

The mind of Christ

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 131

Jesus' entry into Jerusalem continued...



Not one stone shall be left on another...
The epistemological significance of the Cross

From the Archives: Poety of Truth Part 130

Crowds and Power...


Where does Jesus get his authority?

Weeping over Jerusalem...if only you had recognized the things that make for peace...

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 129

Triumphal entry into Jerusalem

“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord…”

Enthusiasms - Of stones & stoning

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 128

Luke chapter 19 - Prolog to Jesus’ suffering and glory



Jesus’ choreography of the passion

The disciples are in a fog – Jesus accepts this and works with it so that they will be able to ‘see’ it after the fact

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 127

Hypostatic selfhood: a self that cannot be distinguished entirely from the God that is the ground of the self’s being

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 126

A reinterpretation of the scene depicted on the Parthenon frieze. The renaissance attempt to emulate Greek rationalism found itself, like Greek philosophy, in orbit around a 'hidden in plain sight' center of sacrificial violence.

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 125

The Parthenon Frieze continued...

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 124

The Parthenon frieze continued...

Papyrus Fragment

The founding violence we could not see…at the heart of Athenian culture.

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 123

The Parthenon Frieze

Seeking a respite from the Gospel's revelation, Europe turned to Athens...

When cultural paradigms come to an end we often look for a marker - the Parthenon Frieze