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If you see something, say nothing.

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Synagoga et Ecclesia / Synagogue & Church A sculpture was recently installed at St. Joseph's University (in Philadelphia) called "Synagoga et Ecclesia in our Time," which transforms supercessionist and triumphalist medieval iconography. In medieval art, Synagoga and Ecclesia are female representations of Judaism and the Church, often found flanking cathedral doors. Synagoga appears invariably blindfolded (or her head bowed) and defeated. The new sculpture depicts Synagoga and Ecclesia as equals, looking to and learning from each others' texts. It was unveiled to commemorate the Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate (1965), which marked Catholicism's changed relationship with Judaism — a relationship reaffirmed by Pope Francis's Evangelii Gaudium (2014). Francis visited the sculpture on his recent visit to Philadelphia.

photo source: Forward magazine. (link below) More information: 

https://www.sju.edu/int/academics/centers/ijcr/archives/Synagoga-Ecclesia.html http://forward.com/news/321629/pope-francis-makes-surprise-stop-to-bless-sculpture-symbolizing-catholic-an/

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Sunday Funday: theology edition.

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I always love the sights of Reykjavík. The textures, the colors. 

Nice doors, strange shoes #helloreykjavik #reykjavik #iceland

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Vegetable Calligraphy

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Word of the Day: bloviate

v. To talk at length, esp. using inflated or empty rhetoric; to speechify or ‘sound off

Image: “Patrick Henry” by Peter F. Rothermel. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Available soon: the Laughter Scroll from Qumran, an ancient text revealing the name of Elohel, the angel of laughter. #deadseascrolls #lol

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"Let my people go [get married]!" #liberation #SCOTUS #MarriageEquality

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LOGOPHILE

[noun]

a lover of words.

Etymology: from Greek logo-, a combining form appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “word,” “speech” + -phile, a combining form meaning “lover of,” “enthusiast for” that specified by the initial element.

[Catrin Welz-Stein - The Storybook]

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Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland in search of our better selves? — the first history man

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This is what people asked the library before Google. (via)

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The Age of Bronze, by Auguste Rodin.

honestly, one of the most breathtaking works i’ve seen. not enough words to describe it.

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We all know that superheroes have become mainstream, what with their movies making billions of dollars at the box office. Superheroes are reaching a wide range of people outside of comic book readers, and this is a thing of beauty. I have been reading comic books since 1993, and was made...

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Avengers: Then & Now

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Have you pored over the map in the famous Game of Thrones opening credit sequence too many times? Well, Redditor selvag has created a new map of George R. R. Martin’s fictional world of Westeros — in the style of Google Maps.