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25.01.2022 The archaeological area of Palatine Hill, the Circus Maximus and in the foreground the XII C Torre della Moletta...

24.01.2022 Rome in autumn...

23.01.2022 Basking in the magic of a few moments.

22.01.2022 BETTER HISTORY, MORE HONESTY The Director's newsletter for 30 November. Taking 25 years as an average human generation, a quick calculation shows that each of you has had 4,096 ancestors in the 300 years since 1720. This fact is obscured by our obsession with patrilinear reckoning, which counts only the male line. Not only is that sexist, but it conceals the truth that all notions of racial purity or claims to noble or exalted birth amount to little more than day-dreaming! ...Continue reading

20.01.2022 IC BC Temple of Vesta, Tivoli...

20.01.2022 The Guinigi tower is one of the few remaining towers in the center of the city of Lucca, in Tuscany. The structure was built by a family of rich and powerful merchants in the fourteenth century, 45 meters high, on the top it houses a hanging garden with seven trees.

19.01.2022 Wanda Skowronska is a Catholic psychologist and author living and working mainly in Sydney. She introduces her chapter entitled ‘Successful Orwellian Resistance in Confusing Times’ in Heart to Heart below. In our era, we are confronted with pervasive ideological mantras. We can wring our hands in dismay or try to confront them by exposing them. My essay focuses on humour which has long been an effective weapon in puncturing irrational mindsets. I look at English writer ...Andrew Doyle, who created a fictional character, Titantia McGrath, identifying as 'non-binary, polyracial and ecosexual' ; also at physicist Alan Sokal who mixed vacuous philosophy with physics and got published in a serious academic journal; and at British Helen Pluckrose and her friends who takes aim at Critical theory, reducing it to gibberish - and who also got published in several serious academic journals! Remember humour is an effective weapon. George Orwell did not write a long tome about Communism - he wrote Animal Farm - and his witty story became the iconic expression of resistance to an era. HOW TO ORDER 1. Transfer funds $30 + $5 postage payment by EFT: B.S.B. 067-000 A/C 10252831 REF. YOUR NAME + Purpose of payment 2. Email [email protected] with your postage address and receipt of bank transfer 3. Await your copy of Heart to Heart

19.01.2022 Nigel Zimmermann introduces his chapter in Heart to Heart entitled Not Yet Erased: Christianity as an Overlooked Minority HOW TO ORDER 1. Transfer funds... $30 + $5 postage payment by EFT: B.S.B. 067-000 A/C 10252831 REF. YOUR NAME + Purpose of payment 2. Email [email protected] with your postage address and receipt of bank transfer 3. Await your copy of Heart to Heart

19.01.2022 Wonderful buildings of Crete... with over 7000 churches on the island, it's only fitting that this series starts with a church. Outside the village of Stylos in... Apokoronas you will find the beautifully renovated 12th centurry Byzantine church of the Panagia Serviotisa. You will have to look for it as it is surrounded by mature oak and walnut trees and many orange groves, thus not easily visible... By the church are also ruins of what would possibly have been part of the monastery of Agios Iaonnis Theologos, the church and graveyard of which can be visited in Stylos itself. Don't forget to visit the fossil of the sea mermaid while you're there! #magicalcrete #crete #kreta #creatingmemories #cretechurches See more

18.01.2022 Campbell Markham is about to commence work as full-time Chaplain of the Braemar Aged Care homes in Perth, W.A. In his chapter, "How Christianity Transforms Human Suffering," he draws from the writings of the great nineteenth-century French pastor Adolphe Monod. In the last year of his life, as Monod lay in great pain dying of liver cancer, he managed to preach twenty-five sermons about suffering. He showed from the Bible how God can use suffering not just to bless and grow th...e sufferer, but also the sufferer's family and community. With this understanding suffering is transformed from pointlessness and hopelessness to a source of thankfulness and even joy. HOW TO ORDER 1. Transfer funds $30 + $5 postage payment by EFT: B.S.B. 067-000 A/C 10252831 REF. YOUR NAME + Purpose of payment 2. Email [email protected] with your postage address and receipt of bank transfer 3. Await your copy of Heart to Heart

17.01.2022 OUR FIRST PHILOSOPHY SUMMER SCHOOL, HOBART, 25-29 JANUARY 2021 The Instructor, Dr David Moltow, is back row centre.

17.01.2022 Early morning "golden hour" light shining on the Tiber...

16.01.2022 Filippino Lippi (1457 - 1504)

15.01.2022 Ancient and modern Rome...

14.01.2022 Triumphal arch in Carnuntum, Austria

12.01.2022 "The light strikes Rome in ways that I’ve never seen". Marie-Henri Belle - Stendhal

12.01.2022 The modern world is madder than any satires on it. #GKChesterton (God and Comparative Religion, The Everlasting Man) In Defense of Sanity in an insane time... www.chesterton.org/shop/in-defense-of-sanity See more

12.01.2022 ‘ Autumn in the French Alps - This is why Autumn is our favourite season. Felt like we were visiting Rivendell. Cannot wait for the lockdown to be over so we can go out and explore again. ‘

12.01.2022 Dear Reader, PHILOSOPHY SUMMER SCHOOL Our first venture of this kind ran from 25 to 29 January and was taught by Dr David Moltow. I took part myself as a student (it’s such fun to sit in the back row from time to time!) and greatly enjoyed my week. Firstly, because David Moltow was a first-rate lecturer, a man whose love of philosophy was infectious and whose energy as a teacher was inspirational; secondly, because despite lockdowns we had ten in the class. Ten very good p...Continue reading

11.01.2022 Natura & Architettura #natura #achitettura #artenatural #powerofnature

10.01.2022 A view from the Castle of Sermoneta...

10.01.2022 Did you know that during the WWII German retreat in 1944 all of Florence's bridges were bombed except for one? Specific orders were mandated to avoid the Ponte Vecchio because of its artistic and cultural value. #monumentmonday #pontevecchio #breathtaking #bridge

09.01.2022 Tesoro: Cappella degli Scrovegni / 1305 d.C. Artista: #Giotto Luogo:#Padova Video: @pierpaolosantoro Tag: #tesori_italiani ... Family: @europe_treasures @printbible La Cappella degli Scrovegni e un luogo di culto cattolico che si trova nel centro storico di Padova e ospita un celeberrimo ciclo di affreschi di Giotto dei primi anni del XIV secolo, considerato uno dei capolavori dell'arte occidentale. La cappella fu fatta costruire da Enrico Scrovegni, un ricchissimo banchiere padovano, ed e interamente affrescata con un ciclo pittorico incentrato sul tema della salvezza Cristiana. The Scrovegni Chapel is a Catholic worship site located in the historic center of Padua that houses a famous Giotto fresco cycle dating from the early 14th century, considered one of the masterpieces of Western art. The chapel was made by Enrico Scrovegni, a wealthy Padua banker, and is entirely frescoed with a pictorial cycle centered on the theme of Christian salvation. La Capilla Scrovegni es un lugar de culto catolico ubicado en el centro historico de Padua con un famoso ciclo de #frescos de Giotto del siglo XIV, considerado una de las obras maestras del arte occidental. La #capilla fue construida por Enrico Scrovegni, un banquero paduano muy rico, y esta completamente pintada al #fresco con un ciclo pictorico centrado en el tema de la salvacion cristiana.. #arteitaliana #italia #beniculturali30 #pintura #histoire #peinture #arthistory #pintor #obra #pittura #storia #masterpiece #italiano #vivaelarte #igreja #affresco #bellearti #patrimonio #church #beauxarts #italy #veneto #bellasartes See more

07.01.2022 CHRISTMAS JOY DIRECTOR'S NEWSLETTER 18 NOVEMBER The full version with links is available at https://www.dawsoncentre.org/newsletter/christmas-joy/...Continue reading

05.01.2022 Rome from the Palatine Hill...

01.01.2022 The Roman Forum as seen through the Arch of Septimius Severus...