The altar panel of St. Clare in Assisi One painting is often reproduced in practically all guidebooks of any language on Assisi – one that little attention has been paid, and is usually outshadowed by the San Damiano Cross. It is the altar panel on the right transept of the Basilica of St...

Introduction Mark 16:16 says, "And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned."1 This is the basis for which Christian's all around the world shares the gosp...

Culture is a catch-all term that is used to describe the various rites, traditions, and rituals attached to a specific group of people. A people's culture encompasses more than his or her religion; it encompasses everything from political beliefs to family traditions. While culture certainly...

Table of Contents Pg 2. Garden of Eden & Pandora's Box Pg 3. Cain and Abel & Odysseus and the Trojan Horse Pg 4. Noah and the Flood & Pygmalion and Galatea Pg 5. The tower of Babel & Daphne and the Laurel Wreath Pg 6. The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah & Echo and Narcissus ...

THE SERVANT OF CHRIST "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ" (Gal. 1:10). Does The Preacher Please Men Or God? With sarcasm Paul asks in Galatians 1:10: "Am I trying to persuade God to fall in li...

Like most morality plays, The Digby Mary Magdalene, uses allegorical exemplum form to relate moral material to the audience. The usual plot of morality plays is an allegorical challenge for the spiritual good of the mankind figure. Susan Haskins, in her book Mary Magdalene, Myth and Metaphor, state...

There are no absolutes, no clear-cut black and white answers, no accurate gauge for justice - right and wrong - no real way to a world beyond physical death. This is the thinking of our age, an age of confusion. People hunger for answers but find only more questions. Christians are unsure of their...

Kim Gnagey APE per. 4 Levels of Meaning in Cool Hand Luke and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey is a story of a mental hospital, the patients within it and the changes both undergo. The film Cool Hand Luke is a story that is somewhat sim...

"Cane" by Jean Toomer As I began to read "Cane," I quickly realized this was going to be a difficult read. I kept thinking about the title because it brought back memories of my grandfather's story of the origin of the black man. My grandfather believed Cain's curse f...

Hind site is always 20/20. Looking back on history, especially the history of painting, one can decipher a great deal about the time it was painted in and the changes in those times. One can understand the value systems, the ethics, government, morality, economics and personal lives of the times r...

Gnostic writings of Jesus portray him as a heavenly redeemer made less of flesh than of spirit. The emphasis of Jesus' importance is not on his physical humanness but rather, on his ability to show people the way to the kingdom. Jesus put on flesh in order to give people gnosis and reveal to the...

John Calvin created the patterns and thought that would dominate Western culture throughout the modern period. North American culture, in particular, is thoroughly Calvinist in some form or another; at the heart of the way North Americans think and act, you'll find this fierce and imposing reformer...

Political Distortions and the Pharisees The Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke, known as the synoptic gospels, that is, "seeing together," were the first writings within the Christian Bible that would come to be referred to as the New Testament. These Gospels were very similar ...