Tag: apocalypse
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Understanding Armageddon
The Christadelphians of Mount Zion, whose events often provoke strange thoughts, are inviting us to join them for an eight-week seminar course called ‘Understanding Armageddon’. Like most people, I suppose, I had a vague idea about Armageddon, but I began to wonder exactly what it was, how it arose, and how discussion about it might…
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Durer’s ‘A heavenly body’: painting apocalypse
Albrecht Durer surely had the sharpest eye of any painter. Think of his watercolour A big piece of turf, made in 1503, half a millennium before the hyperrealist painters of our own time. Or the astonishing sketch of his own head and hand on the reverse of the painting in Paris known as Portrait of…
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An archaeological nightmare
In my experience – and I confess I haven’t lifted a trowel in anger for over forty years – archaeological digs bring nothing but lasting pleasure. For some, though, it’s obviously a different story. Quite recently a friend alerted me to the writings of Sarah Moss. Her speciality, in fiction and in books of travel,…