released 8/21/2020
What are we missing when faces are partially obscured by masks? Dante described the eyes and the mouth as “balconies of the soul” by which we begin to know one another. Portrait painter Catherine Prescott (www.prescottpaintings.com) talks with Ken Myers about how eyes can be misunderstood when cut off from the context of the entire face.
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Christian freedom, writes Brad Littlejohn, means love of neighbor, “and this begins with the Sixth Commandment. What does this mean in the face of pandemic and recession?” In an essay posted in March 2020 at mereorthodoxy.com — read here by Ken Myers — Littlejohn (the author of The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty) reflects on how best to ask and answer some of the questions raised by our current disease-ravaged circumstances.
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