The Professor admits to his decades-long fascination with René Girard (the thinker, not the footballer) and asks for help interpreting two episodes from the Christian scriptures.
Blog: Religion
Mark in the Bee-Hive State Part 5: Happy Returns
‘Mark’, with the help of friends, triumphantly concludes his journey of spiritual exploration.
Mark in the Bee-Hive State Part 4: The Salty Terror of Saltair
In Part 4, ‘Mark’, losing for a moment his spiritual bearings, is plunged into a phantasmagoric horror associated with a terrifying Utahan resort of yesteryear.
Mark in the Bee-Hive State Part 3: Definitely in the Desert
The third part of the account of ‘Mark”s journeys in the state of Utah. He starts off on a sound footing, only to misstep subsequently.
‘Mark’ in the Bee-Hive State Part 2: Approaching the Land of Stone and Sand
In Part 2, ‘Mark’ is heading off to the desert but first gets some unexpected spiritual treats.
Mark in the Bee-Hive State Part 1: Mysteries of Salt Lake City
Are spiritual quests a thing of the past? Not a bit of it. Here are memorialized certain high-points of a journey recently made by a friend of mine — I will call him ‘Mark’ — to the land of Brigham Young.
Why didn’t they tell us the T R U T H ? He was O U R prisoner!
Pourquoi ne nous avoir pas dit la V É R I T É ? C’était N O U S ses gardiens!Donald Pleasence as Father Loomis in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness (1987)
God made you. And God doesn’t make junk!
C’est le Bon Dieu qui t’a fait. Et le Bon Dieu ne fait pas des choses nulles!Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (†July 27, 2007)