Tate Modern was created in the year 2000 to display the national collection of international modern art (defined as art since 1900).
By about 1990 it was clear that the Tate Collection had hugely outgrown the original Tate Gallery on Millbank. It was decided to create a new ga
Blog: Pictures-Books-Reflections
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, known as Willie, was born in St Andrews, Fife, on 8 June 1912. As a child she showed very early signs of creative ability. Determining while at school that she wanted to be an artist, she set her sights on Edinburgh College of Art where, after som
thinking
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Half the day lost, staring
at this window. I wanted to know
just one true thing
about the soul, but I left thinking
for thought, and now -
two inches of snow have fallen
over the meadow. Where did I go,
how long was I out looking
for you?, who would never leave me,
Theology?
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Theology is the Greek word for thinking about God.
According to H. R. Mackintosh, ‘’theology is simply a persistent and systematic effort to clarify the convictions by which Christians live.’’
Theology is thereby also the clarification of convictions by which Christ
PRAYER
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Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
utters itself. So, a woman will lift
her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.
Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
enters our hearts, that small fam
How do we learn?
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Learning by suffering—pathei mathos in Aeschylus' phrase; but this means more than being undeceived: 'what a man has to learn through suffering is not this or that particular thing, but the knowledge of the limitations of humanity, of the absoluteness of the barrier which sep
Being Wrong – we are all destined to err
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In this sense, all wrongness is optimism. We err because we believe above all, in ourselves: no matter how often we have gotten things in the past, we evince an abiding and touching faith in our own stork theories. Traditionally, we are anxious to deny that those stories and th
BURNING THE FALSE SELF
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Suffering is a predominant feeling of the process though
which a human being must pass as the mental ego deconstructs and
the transpersonal self is birthed... The suffering comes from the
clinging we do to all those facets of self we imagined ourselves
to be and that burn off i
Why I dissented from Falconer
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The Commission on Assisted Dying published its report yesterday. It has concluded that it is possible to devise a legal framework that would set out strictly defined circumstances in which terminally ill people could be assisted to die. The work was funded by Sir Terry Pratche
Commission for assisted Dying – radio interviews
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Here ois a piece from BBC Radio wales ( starts 48 minutes 56 seconds in)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b018lc28/
The Commission on Assisted Dying – more news reports
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'Why I Rejected the Report Calling for Assisted Suicide in the UK
One of the commissioners who worked on a report into assisted dying has rejected its conclusions. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
A report by the Commission on Assisted Dying which claimed there is a "strong case" f
The Commission on Assisted Dying – news reports
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http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html
From the Yorkshire Post
Doctors may get power to help terminally ill people end life
Published on Wednesday 4 January 2012 18:52
Doctors could be given the right to help terminally-ill people to die, under pro
The Commission on Assisted Dying Report
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As I return from a relaxing post Christmas break I am preparing for what is bound to be a media storm tommorrow morning as the Report from the Commission is published
"The current legal status of assisted dying is inadequate and incoherent...”
My own position will be ma
the double bass
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He is a drunk leaning companionably
Around a lamp post or doing up
With intermittent concentration
Another drunk's coat.
But close your eyes and it is sunset
At the edge of the world. It is the language
Of dolphins, the growth of tree-roots,
The heart-beat slowing down
The Light that Christmas Sheds
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Have you ever looked into the face of a tiny baby and wondered what will be in store for that child – how his or her life will unfold across the years?
There is an exquisite painting which hangs in the great museum of The Louvre, in Paris. It is called ‘The Adoration of th
God made Man?
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For the central truth, or mystery, of the Christian faith is primarily not a matter of words, and therefore ultimately of ideas or concepts, but a matter of fact, or reality.
The heart of the Christian mystery is the fact of God made man, God with us, in Christ; words, even
patience
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An absolute
patience.
Trees stand
up to their knees in
fog. The fog
slowly flows
uphill.
White
cobwebs, the grass
leaning where deer
have looked for apples.
The woods
from brook to where
the top of the hill looks
over the fog, send up
not one bird.
So absolute, it is
no
made of light
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salt rose, topaz, archery, carnations,
the birth of fire. You are none of these.
You are the holy secret darkness, that space
between shadow and soul. There, where love is.
You are the flower that only blooms
within; hidden, but made of light.
A tactile fragrance, an enhan
When things start going really well, watch out
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"Playfulness can get you out of a rut more successfully than seriousness,"
"Triangles are the plaque in the arteries of communication and stress is the effect of our position in the triangle of our families "
"If you are a leader, expect sabotage"
in fulness of joy
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And thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of t