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Symposium—Why Are People Falling to Hell and How to Save Yourself?

| September 22, 2024 | 0 Comments
Symposium—Why Are People Falling to Hell and How to Save Yourself?

*N.B.: Gustave Doré (c. 1868) – Dante Alighieri – Inferno – Plate 14 (Canto V – The hurricane of souls).  “The infernal hurricane that never rests /          Hurtles the spirits onwards in its rapine.”    ~ Dante “Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord has gone forth in fury—violent whirlwind! It will fall violently on the head […]

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Going to hell to find God

| May 25, 2013 | 0 Comments
Going to hell to find God

washington-dantes-infernoI can clearly remember that fateful day filled with lachrymose as if it were yesterday: a transcendent day inside the reading room of Ms. Mirandi’s fifth-grade at Lillibridge Elementary, Detroit, Mich. I was 10 years old. By “reading room” I mean a corner of the classroom decorated like a library. There were three or four nice decorative chairs, a small sofa, a Persian rug, a coffee table, a lamp and, of course, the epitome of that wonderful space … a bookshelf filled with classical books.

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