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We make art lest we should perish from the truth ...     I.   I don't know if Muslims, like Christians, believe that God moves in a myst...

Artwork for The Atonement of Lesley Ann (2020)  reworked by Stephen Alexander (2021)   I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven...

Theodor Harmsen: Hermaphrodites (2017)  The Book of Adam and Eve   theodorharmsen.com     What do you call the layer of excess fat surround...

Portrait photo of Mark Twain  by José Maria Mora (1882) Before Wilde, there was Twain ... Or, at any rate, before Wilde's e...

Detail from a portrait of Laura Thistlethwayte (née Bell)  by Richard Buckner (1871) "She had a small doll-like face, piquant a...

I.  All Flesh is Grass [Isaiah 40:6] "Plants", says Randy Laist, "play a vital role in the experience of being human...

A miracle is an object or event that not only obliges us to reflect with wonder upon phenomena that seemingly transgress or suspend na...

Sleeve artwork for Mortal Way of Life (1988)  by German thrash metal band Sodom I. The Sin of Sodom is Polysemic Sodomy is one ...

Barnett Newman: Onement VI (1953) Sixty years after it was painted, Barnett Newman's Onement VI sold at Sotheby's in New Y...

One of the things my friend Catherine loves most about her new puppy dog is the soft , subterranean  nature of his penis, which she...

Matilda the Cat is something of an internet sensation, with thousands of followers on social media. But, despite her appearance, she...

Jacky Alcine and Friend - laughing and posing for selfies  in a manner that is all too human  One of the more disconcerting s...

  Joseph Anton Koch:   Landschaft mit dem Dankopfer Noahs (1803)   Yesterday, a lovely rainbow across the skies of West London: ...

Despite what Larry David argues with the neighbourhood cops in a classic episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm (S2/E3) , it's di...

The Omphalos hypothesis - named after the title of a mid-19th century work written by Philip Henry Gosse which proposed, in keep...

  Ahn Jun: Self-Portrait (2011) ahnjun.com There's an irony in the fact that those who seek moral and existential certa...

Astonishingly, some Christians continue to believe that if they lead modest, conventional lives unblemished by additional sin, then t...

Cool Hand Luke (1967), directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Paul Newman, has been widely embraced by a Christian audience kee...