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In the steps of saints and druids:the way of the Celtic church
I have not an answer to this problem.
frankbeswick, on 11/14/2023
The threshold of mystery: Religious Experience
This usage seems sensible and makes sense.
frankbeswick, on 11/14/2023
Simone Weil, a short-lived genius
It's impressive the number of books that Simone Weil accessed in her quest for knowledge.
Is it known whether she purchased books or whether she read them in libraries?
Might she have had quite a book collection? In which case, what would have ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/14/2023
Walsingham: England's Marian shrine
The Iberian peninsula historically, traditionally has a similar slipper arrangement for those pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago.
There might be quite a stack-up of pilgrim slippers in both instances. There must have been some logic to how and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/14/2023
In the steps of saints and druids:the way of the Celtic church
Ragnar Jonasson's most recent mystery, Reykjavik: A Crime Story (co-authored with Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir), addresses the Reykjavik Summit of Oct. 11-12, 1986.
The Kjarvalsstadir Art Gallery competed with Hofdi House and Hotel Saga ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/14/2023
The threshold of mystery: Religious Experience
Thank you for the grammatical/stylistic lesson ;-D!
Do you have "a hard and fast rule" about a space BEFORE the colon?
Your title has no space between the word "mystery" and the colon -- my tendency -- even as it has a space -- my tendency too ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/14/2023
The threshold of mystery: Religious Experience
Thank you!
The Frank Beswick differentiation between religious and spiritual experiences does so most adroitly and helpfully!
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/14/2023
Walsingham: England's Marian shrine
Probably not very comfortable, but I imagine that over the years it was cleared of large and sharp stones.
frankbeswick, on 11/14/2023
The threshold of mystery: Religious Experience
Religious and spiritual experiences overlap, but I use religious to identify a sense of the divine presence, and religious experiences qualify as spiritual experiences, but someone like Buddha, who had a profound experience that did not involve ...
frankbeswick, on 11/14/2023
The threshold of mystery: Religious Experience
I am used to putting a space after the colon, but I don't think of it as a hard and fast rule.
frankbeswick, on 11/14/2023
The threshold of mystery: Religious Experience
Your title inspires a grammatical, stylistic question that I mean from time to time to ask you.
The red book of English grammar that Unitedstatesian high schoolers in the 20th century had to read and test passingly on looked at the colon in a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/14/2023
The threshold of mystery: Religious Experience
Online sources -- like non-digital books and journals and magazines -- sometimes clearly differentiate between religious and spiritual experiences even as I do not agree always with the clear demarcation that different authorities create or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/14/2023
Nautical Theme Wedding Invitations
This wizzley is timeless in its applicability even as nautical-themed wedding parties easily can be adapted to all last half of the year's holidays, from Memorial Day to July 4 to Labor Day to Halloween to Thanksgiving to Christmas and to New ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/14/2023
Walsingham: England's Marian shrine
The first subheading, Beginnings, includes the "Slipper Chapel, where pilgrims took off their shoes so that they could walk the last mile to the shrine barefoot."
What was that last mile like in terms of comfort or wear-and-tear on bare feet?
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/14/2023
Nautical Theme Wedding Invitations
Blue-and-white nautical-themed wedding parties appeal to me.
And yet I also appreciate the supportive colors that can be had with other sea-world colors for background aesthetics.
It can be comforting, predictable or soporific with two colors ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/13/2023