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There is another dimension. It is not the third dimension. It is not the fourth, or the fifth dimension. It does violence to this dimension, in a sense, to give it a number. This is the dimension where number is nonexistent. In the first two or three dimensions, number is required and defining. Length, width,…

Rushing from the plane to find the nearest rest room, I did not pause to read more clearly the adjacent signs overhead. My initial encounter with the city of Dubai was erroneously walking into an Islamic prayer room — not a restroom. A vacation of a lifetime culminating in a mistake I could have avoided…

In many older European churches, and in Orthodox Christian churches throughout the world, a screen stands between the congregation and the precinct of the priests, where the altar is.  In traditional Gothic cathedrals so constructed, this “rood screen” separates the entire choir area – the place where the monastic community and various clergy worshipped several…