Ever heard of ‘the Pyramid of Learning’? It’s a popular educational model for exploring how much we retain of anything we’re trying to learn. The usual estimates are that we retain 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see, 50% of what we both see and hear, 70% …
The “Virtues of Unity”
Messums, the barn and art gallery in Tisbury, is always an impressive setting, but I was particularly moved by the work of Halima Cassell in a recent exhibition entitled ‘Of the Earth’. For ‘Virtues of Unity’ she has created 54, beautiful, bowl-like, sculptural vessels, each unique yet clearly related, with a shared rhythm to their …
Sign of the Cross
It’s often remarked upon how strange it is that Christians wear a cross or crucifix as the sign of their faith and hope since, of course, it represents a means of execution. In the 2nd century some Christian converts were even given the nickname ‘adorers of the gibbet’ – certainly not a title I want …
My Pedestrian Faith
I’d never got round to reading the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, until I had the opportunity to see the play at Bath in May and thought I should do my homework. The strange scenario is that a young Indian boy, Pi, finds himself adrift in a lifeboat on the Pacific, all alone …