So here are some (this time) abstract thoughts on Skyfall which assume you have already seen the movie. I was helped by the thoughtful comments to my earlier posts, but I went in another direction. Hope you enjoy these remarks because they are the last (for now). I know—too much on a popular movie. Enough! Who the hell am I?! Etc.
A Catholic Approach to Immigration
In the USCCB’s recent Special Pastoral Message, the bishops of the United States highlight the suffering inflicted…
The Classroom Heals the Wounds of Generations
“Hope,” wrote the German-American polymath Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, “is the deity of youth.” Wholly dependent on adults, children…
Still Life, Still Sacred
Renaissance painters would use life-sized wooden dolls called manichini to study how drapery folds on the human…