Tag: colonialism
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Self love? Meh. (Really?)
It’s safe to say that Christianity has often been indifferent toward self-love. In fact, when I imagine the typically response to the possibility of self-love, I would describe it like this: Self love? Meh. Our own Reformed and Presbyterian tradition has often been downright negative about self-love. Within our tradition great emphasis has been placed…
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esteem for the everyday – Mary, Weaving, and Peruvian culture
At the Musée des beaux-arts the other day, visiting the exhibition on Peruvian art and culture, I was intrigued with this 18th century (Cuzco School) painting of Mary. The painting owes a great deal to European traditions – both artistic and religious/cultural – and to some extent represents the effort to convert Inca peoples to…
encrusted words 