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When Martin Luther translated the Bible, the great Reformer chose to include the Apocrypha but didn’t like it. He called these books apocryphal, that is, texts of dubious origin, and disqualified by their very nature from being part of the Holy Scriptures. This very fact serves as a proper introduction to those books called the Apocrypha. The Apocrypha is not the Word of God, and, thus, not to be read as such, and not to be trusted for faith and life. However it does provide some value to...

The title of this book suggests that it is based in Bengal but it really meanders deftly across time and space, more often than not in “mazy motion”.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and like texts, art is often meant to be "read" through critical deconstruction. Paintings can be far more complicated

A wide range of artistic movements are covered, including the Italian Renaissance, post-impressionism, and modernism.

Excerpted from The Memoirs of a Cabinet Secretary by BP Peiris (Continued from last week) One day, in the Library, J. B. C. Rodrigo was reading Pollock on torts. A ‘tort’ in law is a civil wrong. There was, next to him a hoary, old gentleman, making weird noises in his breathing which was distracting […]

Human Relations: CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhi President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum chandij@sympatico.ca Key Takeaway from Studies in France I returned to Le Galadari Meridien Hotel in Colombo at the end of 1988 after company training in France and England. […]

From the blog of Balwan Nagial at The Times of Israel

“De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine” opens Psalm 130 (Psalm 129 in the older numbering system): “Out of ...

Le préfet de Dordogne Frédéric Périssat a annoncé ce vendredi 7 août que le port du masque allait devenir obligatoire en extérieur dans les centres-villes d'une vingtaine de communes touristiques du département, alors que...

Using concrete and having an open mind means the owners of this London home have something very special on their hands