Hans Rookmaaker on Art and and Christianity with special reference to the human body.
So the title and the photo for the cover of this video was removed four times before I finally censired it for YouTube. Evidently the algorithms, being on the prowl for excesses of the human body, can recognize the form, but not the meaning. So I received notices on Jan Van Eyck's Adam and Eve. One of the great works and part of the Ghent altarpiece. Listen as Dr. Rookmaaker explains why these subjects are so touchy in a lecture from 1976. This is the original cover for the video that YouTube canceled.Hans Rookmaaker: Art, N*dity, Christianity (An Annotated L'Abri Lecture) Peter Paul RubensThis is a series of questions and answers with Dutch Art Historian Hans Rookmaaker about the meaning of art. This time he discusses n*dity in art and the Christian reaction to it. This is the first of a set. By the way YouTube censored this cover four times, I finally had to change it... A...youtu.be
Vaccine Passports for Pets - It's About Time
If you have a pet, do you have their vaccine passport? If not, then for god's sake be responsible and keep them locked at home and don't threaten the neighborhood by taking them out for a walk! This proclamation will soon be the norm as promoted by the media, government, and social networks. Already, zoo's are beginning to vaccinate their animals against covid and articles are cropping up in corporate-controlled media suggesting that personal pets need to follow suit. I have seen news articles detailing the efforts of the Oakland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Denver Zoos to find "voluntary" ways to get their animals to accept the routine "jabs." Every personal pet will soon be added to the list of living beings that must "contribute to the safety of the world." This unprecedented step is due to one simple thing -- the endless desire to expand the customer base. For every jab is another...
Fad Diets & Sport Performance
Q: “What are your thoughts on fad diets like Keto and Paleo in football?”To preface the answer, the special needs of a footballer’s diet include: higher carbohydrate, protein and caloric needs, frequent fueling before training and matches and fast recovery. Any diet must be able to reflect these needs and ideally should take into account the player’s physiology and individual needs. A one-size-fits-all approach is always going to be fraught with issues, however, we should also be careful here to not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Fad diets certainly do have some benefits, namely that they provide easy-to-follow rules, add structure, and can typically make fast changes to physiology - though these can be too large or too fast because of the extreme nature of some diets.On the other hand, there are many consequences to be considered. Typically they revolve around eliminating...
When Covering Crime, an Underreported Piece of the Puzzle
In an Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed this June, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr described how his office is prioritizing standing up to a "gang-driven violent crime wave [that] threatens our quality of life and our economy." Asserting that the crime surge Metro Atlanta is currently experiencing is mostly driven by gangs, Carr laid out plans to begin more avidly clamping down on said gang networks. His comments in his recent op-ed were very much in line with priorities he outlined to me when we sat down together for a Merion West interview in Atlanta in 2019. During that discussion, he agreed with the assessment that, for a variety of reasons, the gang component receives a relative paucity of attention during discussions about crime in the United States. In my view, this is true when it comes to both news reporting on crime and policy debates about public safety.Carr's recent...
What are we reading?
What am I reading currently? I think that question is interesting - or, that is, the answer might be. I never fail to find the answers other people give me interesting. It's interesting to know people who read anything at all - to begin with - which is why I cultivate relationships with those who do, I suppose.I am re-reading T.S. Eliot - all of him - currently immersed in Four Quartets. Why re-read a work I know so well, and have been able to recite, in portions, since High School? Because I think I know it, but I probably do not really know it. My 16-17 year-old self knew it, as far as it goes, but my 60 year-old self is a very different person, with a different mind and different blind spots.Also, since I'm writing a novel I am avoiding novels. Tammy has enjoyed reading aloud to me stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez as I make breakfast. Many of them I know already, like "One of...
The Quantum Mechanics of Abortion
I shall now put my foot in it and talk about the issue of abortion. I will do this because I believe almost no one in the public sphere is either honest or rational about the subject. And until we attempt both, there is no chance of resolving the cultural divide about it. There may be no chance of resolving the divide anyway, but that shouldn’t stop us from trying. So I will first admit my bias. I am pro-abortion. I believe abortion should be legal up to the scientific consensus on general viability. Interestingly, there was an op-ed in the NY Times recently making the case that viability may not be a good standard much longer, because the age of viability keeps going down. This is a perfect example of dishonesty on the pro-abortion side. The subtext was: if we don’t find another standard, it may soon be harder for women to get abortions. But I think viability is the perfect standard,...
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