2007-08-31 22:48 Art History meets Lutheranism
The painting to the left is the 1897 painting "Prayer Meeting (Chidren of God)" by the artist Niels Bjerre. It depicts members of the Danish Lutheran Piestist group known as Indre Mission (variously Inner Mission or Home Mission). Like all pietists, these men and women of faith were concerned about religion that had become to intellectual, and did not engage a person's heart. There is a resemblence to some contemporary mega-church movements, as much of their faith life took place outside of Sund …
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2007-08-27 08:16 Denmark: Hizb ut-Tahrir's annual conference
Hizb ut-Tahrir in Denmark gathered Sunday for the movement's six-hour annual conference. The conference caused calls from politicians to ban the movement, mainly from the Danish Social Liberal Party (Radikale) and the Danish People's Party. Fadi Addullatif, the movement's spokesperson, said in response that Denmark is becoming a dictatorship, just like those Denmark criticizes in the Middle East. He said such developments blur the difference between the dictatorships and the European governmen …
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2007-07-05 06:43 Susan Braudy: --an excerpt from a memoir in which the late Claudia Cohen Saves the Day
Gentle reader, I will start with a sweaty summer morning in 1985. Fear spasmed my abdomen as I woke up with the realization that I had six months left before I was totally out of book advance money. And I needed three years to finish my current manuscript. Broke. Bankrupt. I listened to the crashing ocean of motors rounding Columbus Circle. I'd lived in Manhattan for a decade by dint of luck and hard work in my rent-stabilized apartment overlooking trees and more trees of Central Park. I had no …
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