The Narthex
Cultivation of Imagination
Human imagination needs to be exercised or it atrophies
By Richard DellOrfano | May 2nd 2022 12:31 PMBefore color movies, TVs, and then iPhones came into widespread use, radio mystery stories like The Shadow Knows had the power to fascinate. The Orson Welles radio broadcast War of the Worlds was so vivid that it caused panic in the streets of major cities. I suspect that same broadcast…
READ FULL BLOG POSTClimate Talk ‘Canceled’
Venue owner cancels talk on science and gets the reply he deserves
By David Daintree | March 30th 2022 2:29 PMWe at the Christopher Dawson Centre, in Australia, are looking forward to hosting a talk by Prof. Ian Plimer on Thursday April 21. He is a controversial and provocative climate scientist who questions the prevailing "narrative." After choosing the venue, a pub in central Hobart, and making the arrangements I…
READ FULL BLOG POSTNuts for Winter
It is not enough to educate boys and girls for a job alone
By David Daintree | November 24th 2021 3:38 PM“The Liberal Arts” is a term we hear a lot which perhaps calls for some explanation. We are not talking about precious and “arty” school subjects that students do when they can’t quite manage math and science! Though that is a common enough impression: I recall as classics master in…
READ FULL BLOG POSTRescuing Wonder
Seeing every created thing as a sign given to reveal God
By Rob Agnelli (Archive) | February 1st 2019 5:21 PMThe Protestant Revolution was not the only revolution of the 16th Century. Just three years prior to Luther’s presentation of his 95 Theses there was an even more earth shattering revolution started by Nicolas Copernicus. The Copernican revolution posited that the Earth was not the center of the cosmos but…
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