![]() How Jesus Became God tells the story of an idea that shaped Christianity, and of the evolution of a belief that looked very different in the fourth century than it did in the first.Ī master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, Ehrman reveals how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty, Creator of all things. ![]() But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus's lifetime-and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. ![]() ![]() New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rendering of Alexander Hamilton is a force of nature who writes like he’s running out of time. “Sweeney is and was perceived as a monster Hamilton in his own time was understood and misunderstood and perceived and misperceived.” “When we were thinking about Hamilton in those earliest days, 2011-12, we were making a show about a person who was misunderstood and perceived to be one thing and in fact was something else,” the 45-year-old recalls via Zoom. But they find connective tissue in Thomas Kail, who directed both shows at the Lunt-Fontanne and Richard Rodgers theatres respectively – and who contends that there would be no Hamilton without Sweeney. A quasi-opera about the fictional demon barber of Fleet Street and a rap-infused history of the first secretary of the US treasury seem odd bedfellows. ![]() ![]() She spent the next two decades in various parts of Europe, until she moved to America and lived there for the last couple years of her life, dying in 1941.Īs I said, this reads like a memoir. A disastrous second marriage (to Bertrand Russell's brother Francis) ended in separation, as she fled to America in 1919. Elizabeth moved to a chateau in Switzerland, had an affair with H. From then on, her many books were billed as "by the author of Elizabeth of Her German Garden," or just "by Elizabeth." However, debts forced her and her husband to sell the estate memorialized in the novel and move to England, and then the husband died in 1910. She published it, anonymously, in 1898 and it turned out a huge best-seller. This is actually her first book, which reads as a memoir but is really a novel I think. Elizabeth and her German Garden, by Elizabeth von ArnimĮlizabeth von Arnim is most famous as the author of The Enchanted April, a novel I am very fond of. ![]() ![]() But a young adult pair of "antique dealers," teamed up with a tough kid from the village and a bogus, threatening vicar, seem determined to head off Uncle Merry (who hints that they may represent "dark forces") and the kids from the prize. Uncle Merry confirms that it may be a 600-year-old copy of a document that dates from 900 years ago, shortly after the days of King Arthur, and may indicate the place where a knight named Bedwin hid a grail - not the Holy one, but a metal cup that depicts highlights from Arthur's reign. ![]() While exploring in an attic, Barney finds a mysterious map or drawing that seems very old. Simon, Jane, and Barnabas ("Barney") Drew go for a holiday in Trewissick, on the coast of Cornwall, and stay in the majestic Grey House, which belongs to a sea captain but is being temporarily occupied by their Great Uncle Merriman ("Merry") Lyon. ![]() ![]() ![]() It reminds us that it is possible to be in a prison of life’s devising even when apparently surviving on the outside Once again, the story involves false identity as a woman named Steph gives herself the slip. The third, Brixton Hill, shares the confident sheen of its predecessors and offers her most accomplished plot yet. Under the Sun, her second, was another gripping tale, about a solitary woman caught up in a claustrophobic expat community in Spain whose life starts to slide out of control as she gets caught up with a sinister local businessman. ![]() It was a page-turner of a performance and deservedly attracted notice (nominated for the Guardian first book award). Lottie’s debut novel, Kiss Me First, was about a young woman seduced by an online community into taking on a dangerously assumed identity. Many people write well but a fluent narrative gift is rarer, tougher to learn and often underrated. For the Moggachs, mother and daughter, know how to tell a story. – if you have read Deborah Moggach’s fiction – about the possibility of a narrative gene passed down within families. ![]() Lottie Moggach’s talent is her own, yet it is impossible not to speculate ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are many queer ways of earning a living but none so quaint as Mrs Gorgandy’s. The cover was evocatively spooky, the blurb tasty, and as I ever judged books by their covers and blurbs at that age–I was willing to give it a go.įrom the first sardonic, intriguing sentences, I was hooked: The Garners I’d wanted were out but browsing idly on the same shelf, I came across a title that looked good. It was a Friday afternoon, I was about twelve or thirteen, and I was looking for something juicy to read at the local library for the weekend. I remember the first time I met Leon Garfield’s work. The first of these I’m republishing, is on Leon Garfield and first appeared in Magpies Magazine some years ago. These articles have been first published in a number of different places. Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be republishing on my blog a number of articles I’ve written over the years, about writers, especially writers for young people, whose work I’ve loved and been inspired by, both as a child and into adulthood. ![]() ![]() His is a more indigenous style of Filipino comics illustrationĬompared to that of Alcala or Redondo. Niño’s critical appeal may partly be due to the distinctness of Singular creative vision redefined comic book art for everyone that ![]() ![]() Kirby, Moebius, Kazuo Koike, and Alberto Breccia an artist whose He has been hailed as a comics visionary on par with Jack ![]() Of the first generation of Filipino Wave artists, Alex Niño isĪrguably the one who has received the most international criticalĪcclaim. [NOTE: Portions of the following text were first published on The “Filipino Wave,” as it came to be called, saw the likes of Nestor Redondo, Alfredo Alcala, Tony DeZuniga, Rudy Nebres, Ernie Chan, and many others pencil and/or ink scores of issues for DC, Marvel, Warren, and other outfits, helping define the look of an era. ![]() Every Friday, I take a look at the work of one of the dozens of Filipino artists who illustrated horror, sword-and-sorcery/fantasy, western, sci-fi, and war comics for American publishers during the 1970s and early 1980s. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s all true, but we actually have some of my favourite people in the world who are here tonight. Tonight – it’s written down here – tonight we welcome a dynamic group of panellists to explore the epic issues embodied in our current breakthrough exhibition in Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters. Is that working okay, that mic for you? Is it all good? Great. ![]() I also want – especially today, but, as is something that we pride ourselves on here – I want to extend that sense of respect and openness of this institution to all Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander peoples who are with us today. I offer my respect to elders past, present and those of tomorrow. I’m always grateful for the welcome and the generosity of spirit that they show to us here at the Museum, and the Museum community to be on their lands. I’m the Director of the National Museum of Australia, and I’d like to start tonight, as always for events here at the Museum, by acknowledging that we meet on the lands of the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal, Ngambri peoples, who are the traditional custodians of this land. ![]() MATHEW TRINCA: For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Mat Trinca. ![]() ![]() Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums. ![]() Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aisha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. ![]() Potential history : unlearning imperialism / Ariella Aisha Azoulay ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Munchausen by proxy (MBP) is the world’s most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse, in which the caretaker-almost always the mother-invents or induces symptoms in her child because she craves the attention of medical professionals. This child will not ruin her plans.įrom early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, and operated on-in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother’s mind. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to "get to the bottom of this." She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. It’s four o’clock, and she hasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. ![]() |