# Catherine Opie

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An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail - 003

Sometimes you read a book and feel ‘this is a bit of me!’ That’s how we both felt reading An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail, so we wanted to talk about it. It’s a book about friendship, across generations, and the power of queer solidarity. So it also led us to two recent photography exhibitions too. -…

The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part III

There is a fierce honesty in the fathers that modern Christians often find difficult to endure. They do not allow us the comfort of remaining spectators to the Fall. We prefer to think of Adam’s transgression as history, tragedy, doctrine, or inherited condition. But the fathers insist upon somethi…

S2 Ep 6: Amelia Abraham reads from 'Sex, Clubs, Dissent'

Amelia Abraham reads her essay 'Paradise Lost: The Life and Death of Sexual Subcultures' from her new visual history of queer nightlife Sex, Clubs, Dissent. Abraham charts an underground history of sexual subculture from London's Spunk & Chain Reaction parties in 1980s Vauxhall to the San Francisco…

The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part V

There is a fierce honesty in the Desert Fathers that can unsettle us if we read them too quickly. They never soften the reality of sin. They do not sentimentalize weakness. They do not pretend evil is harmless, nor do they collapse into the modern confusion that mercy means blindness or moral indi…

The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily XV, Part I

There are moments in the writings of St. Isaac the Syrian where one realizes that what he is speaking about is not “religion” as we commonly understand it at all. He is not concerned with external religiosity, spiritual image, theological sophistication, emotional experiences, or moral performance…

Clare Freestone

In this episode of The Decisive Moment Carrie and Charles talk to the wonderful curator Clare Freestone from the National Portrait Gallery as she talks about her career, books and recent exhibitions Yevonde: Life in Colour and Catherine Opie: To Be Seen   Please follow us on your podcast platform. …

The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part VII

The Fathers tell us again and again not to judge. We nod our heads. We agree. We repeat the commandment. And then we continue judging. The reason is simple. --- Text of chat during the group: 00:19:25 Fr. Charbel Abernethy: Volume III page 27 paragraph 23 00:29:20 Julie: Sometimes I feel w…

The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter II, Part VIII

The Fathers speak about judgment with a severity that can seem almost excessive to us. They speak of grace withdrawing, of years of tears and repentance, of visions of Christ refusing worship to one who condemned his brother. We recoil at this language because we do not see condemnation as they saw…

The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter VIII, Part I

One of the striking features of the desert tradition is the extraordinary seriousness with which the Fathers speak about the conscience. Modern readers can easily mistake conscience for little more than an inner feeling, a private moral opinion, or an emotional sense of guilt. The Fathers know noth…

The Evergetinos: Book Three - Chapter V, Part II, VI, and VII, Part I

The Fathers are extraordinarily subtle here because they know that the human heart is subtle. They refuse the comforting simplicity by which we divide the world into good people and bad people, good deeds and evil deeds, the righteous and the guilty. Not because such distinctions are meaningless, …