In some places the road was all but impassable.īen and his wife lois are visiting their more-successful friend stan and his new trophy wife mackenzie. Ruin had lately devoured most of the city and it encroached on either side of the abandoned interstate: derelict cars rusting back to the elements, skeletal trees stark against a gray horizon, an ashen, baked-looking landscape, though no fire had burned there. The threat in this case is known as "ruin." it seems to be similar to "the nothing" in michael ende's The Neverending Story:Ī wave of destruction creeping ever closer, withering everything in its path: instead of the wealthy and titled thinking themselves safe from the plague behind fortified walls and having a big old party about it, here we have a group of aaaartists celebrating in the face of encroaching death realizing its inevitability and thumbing their noses at it as they hold "suicide parties" where their death becomes a work of art itself, and one of their choosing. This story is a kind of riff on The Masque of the Red Death.
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The Telescope in the Ice is, ultimately, a book about people and the thrill of the chase: the struggle to understand the neutrino and the pioneers and inventors of neutrino astronomy. Neutrino physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and IceCube is at the forefront. Undergraduate Mathematics Series)Mark Bowen, Schicksalsglocken. And since the neutrino is one of the strangest and least understood of the known elementary particles, this is fertile ground. Inter 2nd year results 2009 marks, Temazos 90. Body searchAaron Marc Stein, Research into Spinal Deformities 8 (Studies in Health. Its scientific goals span not only astrophysics and cosmology but also pure particle physics. IceCube is also the largest particle physics detector ever built. In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos and thus gave birth to a new field of astronomy. It employs a cubic kilometre of diamond-clear ice, more than a mile beneath the surface, to detect an elementary particle known as the neutrino. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. And there was more singing and standing, and someone was putting a piece of fresh, crumbly bread in my hands, saying "the body of Christ," and handing me the goblet of sweet wine, saying "the blood of Christ," and something outrageous and terrifying happened. It had some dishes on it, and a pottery goblet.Īnd then we gathered around that table. "Jesus invites everyone to his table," the woman announced, and we started moving up in a stately dance to the table in the rotunda. We sat down and stood up, sang and sat down, waited and listened and stood up and sang, and it was all pretty peaceful and sort of interesting. Gregory's with almost no experience or exposure to Christianity: Her conversion during open communion as she was visiting St. Gregory's, the church that will eventually become her home and the eventually launching pad for Miles's efforts to feed the hungry of her city. Miles, an unbeliever raised by atheist parents, has her conversion by participating in open communion at St. More, Take This Bread is the best apology for open communion I've ever read. The book is the spiritual memoir of Sara Miles, but the theological attraction of the book is that Take This Bread is an extended meditation on Eucharistic theology and its connection to radical hospitality and social justice. It's one of the best books I've read in quite sometime. (Thanks Natalie for the recommendation!) I highly recommend this book. I recently finished Take This Bread by Sara Miles. His book became very popular because he toured the Netherlands promoting it by giving lectures about funny situations caused by misunderstandings and misinterpretations while communicating in the two languages. Brown was a well-known clergyman for the Scottish church in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and fluent Dutch speaker. 'Cuey-na-Gael' is perhaps best represented in translation as " Hugh the Scotchman", given Irwin Brown's devotion to all things Scots, or as he always put it, 'Scotch '. It is a Gaelic phrase identifying a native speaker of Gaelic, a member of the Gaeltacht a language group that includes both Irish and Erse, the language of the Scottish Highlanders. John Irwin Brown (1858-1937) deserves a comment. This curious pen-name ‘Cuey-na-Gael’ used by the English Rev. But the book that really caught my attention was “ An Irishman's Difficulties with the Dutch Language” (Rotterdam, 1908) by ‘Cuey-na-Gael’. 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Flight Behavior is steeped in both the excitement of self-destruction and the beauty of self-preservation is here: the awesome forces of nature that can cause us to call into question how we have been living our lives and strike us out on paths of change. Holy, stubborn, haunting, and earthy, Kingsolver writes a brilliant book about a world struggling against our own human nature. When her world is invaded by journalists, scientists, religious leaders, and sight seekers, Dellarobia struggles to hold on to the honest clarity her initial vision brought her. After her spiritual seeing, Dellarobia cannot un-see: the wrong of her ways, the evils of her town, the hypocrisy of her church, the battles in her husband’s family. Dellarobia, a farmer’s wife in rural Appalachia, is on her way to have secret sex with her lover when she witnesses a valley of trees on a mountainside bathed in a lake of fire. IMAGE COURTESY OF DAVID WOODīarbara Kingsolver’s latest novel, Flight Behavior (Harper Collins) is full of miracles. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. Many of today's evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they've read John Eldredge's Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex-and they have a silver ring to prove it. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism-or in the words of one modern chaplain, with "a spiritual badass."Īs acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. The "paradigm-influencing" book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. Every time Claire left, I wanted her back with him. With all his flaws, I still loved sheperd because beneath all that violence was true love for his Omega. I couldnt wait to listen to this one to hear more about Shepherd and Claire. I loved the author's previous series Alpha's claim so I have no issue with dark romance. Really wanted to love this book but couldnt Bernard Dome has what he wants, and they will all be dammed if they deny him. Her safety is his priority, and something he’s willing to risk war to assure. His machinations are subtle, his hands full tending to his recovering mate. Peace has a price, a price the commodore of Bernard Dome is willing to pay.so long as the rare Omega remains his. There is no freedom.Īnd there is no interference from foreign Domes.until a new threat arrives from a distant continent. There is no subversion, no question of who rules. But life in the city depends on the occupation chosen for you at birth. He broke her, swearing he’d put her back together.īernard Dome is the jewel of Europe, a bastion of art and culture, pleasure and decadence. He took her with violence while none intervened. The commodore stole her off the streets in broad daylight - the first Omega female discovered in Bernard Dome in generations. “Startling in its brutality, the Alpha's Claim series is a sensual masterpiece which glorifies in its own unflinching depiction of the most base of human nature.” (Zoe Blake, USA Today best-selling author) Posts which are only cross-posts to another subreddit's content.“Was it a sin?" posts arising from OCD or scrupulosity are not allowed."Bandwagons" (no more after mods declare one to be over). 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