Category Archives: Bible

Quake and Quarantine

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

So, last night, in the midst of the COVID-19 quarantine, we had an earthquake. At 3:33 AM. And, get this, it was 3.3 on the Richter Scale. It was only a few miles from our house, down in Lost Cove … Continue reading →

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Rainy evening reflections

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

It’s raining in Sewanee, and will be for the next few days, they say. Springtime has always been the season of showers around here, of course, a small price to pay for the green of the trees and grass. It’s … Continue reading →

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: Oedipus at Colonus

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: Antigone

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: Bacchae

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Domine ne in furore tuo arguas

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

These images are take from the recently-recovered Fauquier Book of Hours, on which my friend and colleague Greg Clark is an expert, as discussed in the video below. The scene illustrated is from Psalm 6, the opening of which is … Continue reading →

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Protected: Crap about the muslins

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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Dante Purgatorio cantos 22-23 cartoons

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

About 20 years ago, former student of mine at Boston College made these cartoons for me of Purgatorio cantos 22-23, on the Prodigal and the Gluttonous. She dashed them off, but I think they’re really wonderful.

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Daniel/Amos/Jonah: discussion questions

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

Some old discussion questions for an Honors class at Boston College on the prophets Daniel The Book of Daniel is set explicitly during the Babylonian Captivity, that 400-year period when the Israelites were forcibly removed from the Promised Land to … Continue reading →

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Protected: The Afterlife of the Gifts of the Magi

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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