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Contrast, in photography, refers to the difference in brightness or color or focus between different parts of an image and adds depth and texture. There is tonal contrast, which involves the interplay of highlights and shadows, and color contrast, which highlights between different hues. The effective use of contrast can transform an ordinary snapshot into a striking photograph that grabs the viewer’s attention and conveys powerful emotions.
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The other day I listened to an online discussion among three prominent public intellectuals. Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, and Sam Harris. They were lamenting the current destruction of what they considered the positive aspects of Christendom. Interestingly the uber-atheist Richard Dawkins, the author of the book “The God Delusion” recently made a similar point on his social media.
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The other day I listened to an online discussion among three prominent public intellectuals. They were lamenting the current destruction of what they considered the positive aspects of Christendom. In their initial academic pursuits, they each had been attracted to the foundational principles of what we could call secular humanism as the substrate that could provide what was needed to produce a moral and ethical society. Now they weren’t so sure, in that the ideas rooted in that substrate were not producing the fruit that they had hoped for but a crop of poisonous ideologies that were hollowing out Christendom.
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The future Benedict XVI wrote this in his now-classic book Introduction to Christianity. The Cross, he wrote, "expresses the primacy of acceptance over action... Accordingly, from the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what he accepts.”
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This presentation is from a series of talks on Luke’s Gospel. It contains some points to consider before starting to go through the Gospel, chapter by chapter. I’m indebted to the insights of Gil Bailie, for some of the material in this study.
