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Why is this strange painting so important? It is a literal illustration of the Chalcedonian formula for the nature of Christ as fully human and fully divine: the Sinai Pantocrator is one of the oldest surviving images of this kind, preserved from the iconoclasts by being very, very far from the imperial centre at Constantinople.
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At the forefront of theological renewal today is a renewed hunger for God—a genuine desire for depth, for mystery, for communion. I sense this not only intuitively but anecdotally too, in how people are reaching again for metaphysical and theological language to make sense of their lives. This is one of the reasons I enjoy the work of Ry…
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I am not a Dress"
Written by a 14 year old girl in Belfast
We are women, we are warriors of steel.
Woman is something no man will ever feel.
Woman is not a skill that any man can hone.
Woman is our word and it is ours alone.
I am not a dress to be worn on a whim,
A man in a dress is nonetheless a him.
Women are not simply what we wear.
If this offends you, I do not care.
I am not an idea in any man’s mind
And my purpose in life is not to be kind.
So while my rights are trampled every day of the week,
I will not stand by being docile and meek
I am not defined by sexist lies.
There is more to woman than that shallow guise,
That guise of dresses, bikinis and skirts,
Those clothes are not what womanhood is worth.
I am not a bitch, a TERF, a whore, a slag,
Hysterical, a witch, a slut, a hag.
No I am a woman, I am a female,
Who will not let her rights be put up for sale.
I am not defined by what men are not.
So to hell with cis misogynistic rot.
I am a woman, I’m not a subset of my sex.
If this makes me a dinosaur, so be it, I’m a T-Rex
I am not a bleeder nor a menstruator,
A womb carrier or a uterus haver.
Those words and phrases are such a sham.
Just call me woman, it is who I am.
We are women, we are warriors of steel.
Woman is something no man will ever feel.
Woman is not a skill that any man can hone.
Woman is our word and it is ours alone.