"It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to...

And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civilization than it does about God.
~ Madeleine L'Engle ~












And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civiliz...
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