Our replacements have arrived at the front. They have come to relieve us. We have fought, valiant and unceasing, till we no longer remember a world without fighting. But we are not finished. We must prepare these new soldiers to take over our posts, to hold the line, to push forward against the Enemy. And […]
“Destroy this cathedral,” Jesus said to them. “Destroy it, and I will rebuild it in three days.” “But it took epochs to build!” they protested. “It took epochs to build, and you’re going to rebuild it in three days? How?” They began to laugh. But Jesus was not speaking about architectures of wood and stone,
One morning I shadowed a middle-school tour inside the Cleveland Art Museum for half an hour, overhearing the tour guide’s lecture. I had already spent two hours between the medieval and romantic exhibits—a breathtaking experience of history given in full sweep—and now, as though inevitably, I end my round in the late-modern and contemporary gallery.
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