Tali Folkins
Editor at Anglican Journal
Editor, Anglican Journal but opinions expressed here don't represent my employer. Independent scholar of love in the Platonic tradition
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Mar 1, 2024 |
anglicanjournal.com | Tali Folkins
In a 2013 article for Scientific American (“Beyond Ishtar: The Tradition of Eggs at Easter”), writer Krystal D’Costa helpfully demolishes the hoax, circulating on the internet at the time, that the ultimate origin of Easter was the celebration of Ishtar, ancient Babylonian goddess of love and war (an interesting combination of spheres over which to preside, I’ve always thought). She also writes of the remarkable frequency with which the egg has cropped up as a symbol in the world’s religions.
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Nov 24, 2023 |
anglicanjournal.com | Tali Folkins |Sean Frankling
Mississauga, Ont. In her opening remarks to the 2023-2025 members of the Council of General Synod (CoGS), Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said she has yet to decide on a retirement date. Nicholls also discussed the church’s continued plans to promote peace and condemn any and all violence in the Holy Land and commented on division and unity in the international Anglican Communion amid disagreement on same-sex marriage.
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Mar 3, 2023 |
anglicanjournal.com | Tali Folkins
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Dec 12, 2022 |
anglicanjournal.com | Tali Folkins
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Feb 1, 2022 |
anglicanjournal.com | Tali Folkins
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There’s a tendency in our modern world to see intuition and other forms of immediate cognition as merely subjective. It’s why we don’t believe in wisdom any more. https://t.co/tOOAZvl3mM
In the Platonic tradition, love and other ecstatic moments offer us a glimpse of the principle of everything, the ultimate object of human desire and the basis of truth. But in the modern West we are often reluctant to accept this. https://t.co/dHZ2TZhY8B
Plato at the Googleplex, that 2014 book attempting to popularize Plato, missed the point imho. But perhaps that shouldn't be surprising. https://t.co/uBJmiusrjM
