attributed to Cornelisz de Man. Formerly attributed to Hendrick van Vliet.
View from the choir to the portal.

Gerrit Houckgeest, 1654
A green curtain is pulled back in the foreground, revealing a view of two groups of figures and one dog.

Emanuel de Witte, 1650/2
Portion of a grave in the foreground. Two children graffiti a pillar, and a dog relives himself on another.

Cornelis de Man, 1660/70
A nursing mother.

Hendrick van Vliet, 1660.
An open grave at center, a single figure behind.

Emanuel de Witte, c. 1680
A group of figures listen to a sermon.

The LRA is a cult with guns, or maybe an insurgent group with a religious alibi. "Everyone has to carry living water with them [at all times]. In heavy combat the water may tell LRA personnel what to do"

I was looking at the yesterday. Sort of like hermeticism, without the hermeneutics.

President's Council on Bioethics: "Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone--a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America..."

Um, whatever. This will be just as observed as the mandated recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.

“We are concerned about humanism and heresies among people in Flushing”

1681: Quaker meeting house, Easton.

Thrice-Wise Hermes, because he had three avatars? Was probably a real guy who became a god, according to PLW. (origin of phrase 'hermetically seal')

"murdered in the bathroom of the Divinity School, U of Chicago, shot once in the back of the head." "Speculation arose that he had been killed by former Securitate agents"..."There are also various claims that Culianu was killed by an occult grouping."

"artist invited representatives from 8 religious faiths [in the Ruhr] to answer the question: 'Is it possible to depict the subject of your quest?'...Answers engraved on 8 glass panels, installed permanently at the place of worship of another faith."

Fred Holland-Day photographed a young Khalil Gibran. zraxed!

"spandrel" takes on a new meaning

Substitution of religious language for 'Economese.' Useful simplification?

Evidence that Spanish Jews emigrated to New Spain (esp New Mexico) c. 1590s-1600s

So it's anachronistic to call someone in 1820 a Dunkard: "a small group of conservatives withdrew from the Church of the Brethren and formed the Dunkard Brethren Church in 1926"

k: got a go-ahead on this.

'One woman asked: “So why NOT us? If we contain the wisdom and grace and love and creativity of Jesus, why shouldn’t we be the ones involved in politics and setting laws?”' With great arrogance comes ...

Santa statue in St. Nick's hometown of Demre, Turkey. (he displaced a Russian Orthodox version)

In a form of sympathetic magic, islanders built life-size straw mockups of airplanes & landing strips, carved headphones from wood, & wore them while sitting in fabricated control towers. Waved landing signals from runways, lit signal fires, etc

google cache. Subaltern history of Islam in W. Africa, among US slaves, 'heretical' sects & etc.

Oldest synagogue in the Americas. Congregation fled under the Inquisition, to NYC and then Providence, later to built the oldest synagogue in the US (Touro Syn., 1759)

The Writings of Hakim Bey

"The Biblically possible shapes of the Earth"

"the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"

in September 2000 Betty Green sat down at her computer and started to ask God for answers to her own questions. After a while she began to receive the answers you'll find published here.