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"Jesus Saves", take 2 #toronto #christianity #stclairave #stclairwest #earlscourt #jesus #faithimpactministry #spring #latergram

This is the second time that I have taken a photo of the "Jesus Saves" sign at Faith Impact Ministries on 1780 St. Clair Avenue West; the first take is here. The starkness, of the sign as much as the message, is eye-catching. What, I wonder, will it look like come lush warm green summer?

I was walking last weekend west past Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Church, in the west of the neighbourhood of Parkdale, when I saw this statue of the Virgin Mary. I had wanted to take a photo of the tatue, framed so nicely by the window behind it and with a coat painted in an earnest sky blue, for aesthetic reasons. I also recalled the old tradition of asking the Virgin Mary to intercede with Christ for mercy in--for instance--times of plague.

This image has turned out to become one of my most popular photos on Instagram, largely because of apparently Lebanese users finding the image via hashtags.

Our Mother Mary in blue #toronto #parkdale #queenstreetwest #ourladyoflebanon #virginmary #blue #statue #maronite #maronitecatholic

JSTOR Daily provides advice for users of Zotero and Scrivener, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at instances where product placement in pop culture went badly, here.

JSTOR Daily considers the import of a pioneering study of vulgar language in the context of popular culture studies, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at the--frankly terrible--policies of managing rival heirs in the Ottoman dynasty, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at generational divides on religion in the England of the early Protestant Reformation, here.

Bad Astronomer considers how a stellar-mass black hole of 70 solar masses got so unaccountably huge.

Alex Tolley at Centauri Dreams considers the colours of photosynthesis, and how they might reveal the existence of life on exoplanets.

The Dragon's Tales shares some links on humans in the Paleolithic.

Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog considers the scripts of jokes.

Gizmodo reports on the repurposed China-Netherlands radio telescope operating from an orbit above the far side of the Moon.

JSTOR Daily considers the political rhetoric of declinism.

Language Log considers the controversy over the future of the apostrophe.

James Butler at the LRB Blog notes a YouGov prediction of a Conservative majority in the UK and how this prediction is not value-neutral.

Marginal Revolution shares a paper from India noting how caste identities do affect the labour supply.

Ursula Lindsay at the NYR Daily considers if the political crisis in Lebanon, a product of economic pressures and sectarianism, might lead to a revolutionary transformation of the country away from sectarian politics.

Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections looks at some of the many complicated and intermingled issues of contemporary Australia.

The Planetary Society Blog reports on the latest projects funded by the ESA.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares ten beautiful photos taken in 2019 by the Hubble.

Strange Company reports on the strange unsolved disappearance of Lillian Richey from her Idaho home in 1964.

Window on Eurasia shares a Russian criticism of the Ukrainian autocephalous church as a sort of papal Protestantism.

Arnold Zwicky considers the positive potential of homoeros.

"Jesus Saves" #toronto #stclairavenue #earlscourt #cross #jesus #faithimpactministry #sunday #fall #autumn

Architectuul visits the studio of Barbas Lopes Arquitectos in Lisbon, here.

Bad Astronomer takes a look at a new paper examining the effectiveness of different asteroid detection technologies, including nuclear weapons.

Centauri Dreams reports on a new study suggesting potentially habitable planets orbiting Alpha Centauri B, smaller of the two stars, could suffer from rapid shifts of their axes.

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber argues some polls suggest some American conservatives really would prefer Russia as a model to California.

Bruce Dorminey notes the discovery, by the Murchison Widefield Array in Australia, of 27 supernova remnants in our galaxy.

The Dragon's Tales shares a collection of links about stealth aircraft, here.

Gizmodo notes a new study suggesting that DNA is but one of very very many potential genetic molecules.

Language Hat shares a reevaluation of the Richard Stanyhurst translation of the Aeneid, with its manufactured words. Why mightn't this have been not mockable but rather creative?

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money celebrated the 50th anniversary of the takeover of Alcatraz Island by Native American activists.

Chris Bertram writes at the LRB Blog, after the catastrophe of the Essex van filled with dozens of dead migrants, about the architecture of exclusion that keeps out migrants.

Marginal Revolution shares a comment looking at the fentanyl crisis from a new angle.

Jenny Uglow writes at the NYR Daily about a Science Museum exhibit highlighting the dynamic joys of science and its progress over the centuries.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw takes a look at the question of how to prevent the wildfires currently raging in Australia. What could have been done, what should be done?

The Planetary Society Blog reports on proposals from China for two long-range probe missions to interstellar space, including a Neptune flyby.

Drew Rowsome reviews the wonderfully innocent Pinocchio currently playing at the Young People's Theatre.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the evidence for the universe, maybe, being closed.

Window on Eurasia notes that the Alexandria Patriarchate is the next Orthodox body to recognize the Ukrainian church.

Arnold Zwicky looks at irregular versus regular, as a queer word too.

The vicious homophobia exhibited by TCDSB trustee Mike Del Grande is, IMHO, another reason to defund public Catholic education in Ontario. Global News reports.

The CCLV streetcars of the TTC are set to be pulled by the end of November. Global News reports.

The Scarborough Bluffs are set to see some worthwhile investment. blogTO reports.

CBC notes growth in food bank usage in Toronto and Mississauga.

Presto users are being mischarged based on GPS mistakes. CBC reports.

Renovictions have spiked 300% over the past four years. blogTO reports.

The cost of rent continues to grow in Toronto. blogTO reports.

A new project hopes to make Yonge and Eglinton less congested. The Toronto Star reports.

New regulations about Airbnb should make the real estate market easier for renters. NOW Toronto reports.

Owing to family request, a new street in Etobicoke will not be named after former Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Global News reports.

This phrase painted on the playground pavement of Toronto St. Paul VI Catholic School on Laughton Avenue, in Carleton Village, caught my eye. (The fence enclosing the words also helped.)

"Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus" #toronto #carletonvillage #laughtonave #stpaulvischool #playground #jesus #fence

Bad Astronomer notes the circumstances of the discovery of a low-mass black hole, only 3.3 solar masses.

Crooked Timber shares a photo of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.

The Crux looks at Monte Verde, the site in Chile that has the evidence of the oldest human population known to have lived in South America.

The Dragon's Tales notes that Russia may provide India with help in the design of its Gaganyaan manned capsule.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing talks of his work, including his upcoming conference and his newsletter, The Convivial Society. (Subscribe at the website.)

Gizmodo shares the Voyager 2 report from the edges of interstellar space.

JSTOR Daily looks at the East India Company and its corporate lobbying.

Language Hat shares an account from Ken Liu of the challenges in translating The Three Body Problem, linguistic and otherwise.

Language Log looks at the problems faced by the word "liberation" in Hong Kong.

Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the implications of the surprising new relationship between Russia and the Philippines.

Marginal Revolution seems to like Terminator: Dark Fate, as a revisiting of the series' origins, with a Mesoamerican twist.

Sean Marshall announces his attendance at a transit summit in Guelph on Saturday the 9th.

Garry Wills writes at the NYR Daily about his experience as a man in the mid-20th century American higher education looking at the rise of women.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the strangely faint distant young galaxy MACS2129-1.

Window on Eurasia considers the possibility of Latvia developing a national Eastern Orthodox church of its own.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait shares images of Jupiter, imaged in infrared by ALMA.

Centauri Dreams looks at ocean upwelling on one class of super-habitable exoplanet.

D-Brief looks at how the Komodo dragon survived the threat of extinction.

Far Outliers reports on a mid-19th century slave raid in the Sahel.

Gizmodo notes that the secret US Air Force spaceplane, the X-37B, has spent two years in orbit. (Doing what?)

JSTOR Daily looks at the economic underpinnings of medieval convents.

Dave Brockington writes at Lawyers, Guns and Money about the continuing meltdown of the British political system in the era of Brexit, perhaps even of British democracy.

The LRB Blog looks at the impact of Brexit on the Common Travel Area.

Marginal Revolution reports on how Poland has tried to deter emigration by removing income taxes on young workers.

Carole Naggar writes at the NYR Daily about the photography of women photographers working for LIFE, sharing examples of their work.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why time has to be a dimension of the universe, alongside the three of space.

Frank Jacobs of Strange Maps shares NASA images of the forest fires of Amazonia.

Window on Eurasia notes that many Russophones of Ukraine are actually strongly opposed to Russia, contrary Russian stereotypes of language determining politics.

This 2013 Toronto Guardian article explains how the Korean community in Toronto can trace its origins to early 20th century missionaries from Canada.

At Spacing, Daniel Panneton writes about the rise of fascism in Italian Toronto and the very different reactions to this ideology's rise.

CBC Toronto reports on the popular new app Irish App-roved, aimed at helping new immigrants from Ireland get oriented in Toronto.

Jacob Lorinc at the Toronto Star tells the story of Albino Carreira, a Portuguese-Canadian construction worker disabled by a construction incident in the 1990s who went on to whimsically decorate his Clinton Street home and his bug-covered van.

The growing racialization of poverty in Toronto is a huge ongoing concern. The Toronto Star reports.

Centauri Dreams reports on how dataset mining of K2 data revealed 18 more Earth-sized planets.

Crooked Timber speculates on how Clarence Thomas might rule on abortion given his public rulings.

D-Brief observes that some corals in Hawaii appear to thrive in acidic waters. Is there hope yet for coral reefs?

Karen Sternheimer writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about how sociology and history overlap, in their subjects and in their methods.

Far Outliers examines how the last remnants of Soviet power faded quickly around the world in 1991.

Gizmodo looks at how an image of a rare albino panda has just been captured.

Joe. My. God. notes how Christian fundamentalists want to make the east of Washington State into a 51st state run by Biblical law.

JSTOR Daily notes how trees can minimize algae blooms in nearby water systems.

Victor Mair at Language Log takes issue with problematic pop psychology regarding bilingualism in Singapore.

Lawyers, Guns, and Money takes issue with trying to minimize court decisions like (for instance) a hypothetical overthrow of Miranda v. Arizona. (Roe v. Wade is what they are concerned with.)

The NYR Daily looks at the short storied life of avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Rubin.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why we can never learn everything about our universe.

Towleroad notes that downloads of the relationship app Hinge have surged after Pete Buttigieg said he met his now-husband there.

Window on Eurasia notes that Ukraine is seeking to have the Kerch Strait separating Crimea from adjacent Russia declared an international body of water.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at what famed gay writer John Rechy is doing these days.

Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber takes us from her son's accidental cut to the electronic music of Røbic.

D-Brief explains what the exceptional unexpected brightness of the first galaxies reveals about the universe.

Far Outliers looks at how President Grant tried to deal with the Ku Klux Klan.

JSTOR Daily looks at the surprising influence of the Turkish harem on the fashion, at least, of Western women.

This Kotaku essay arguing that no one should be sitting on the Iron Throne makes even better sense to me now.

Language Hat looks at the particular forms of French spoken by the famously Francophile Russian elites of the 19th century.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how teaching people to code did not save the residents of an Appalachia community.

Marginal Revolution notes how, in the early 19th century, the young United States trading extensively with the Caribbean, even with independent Haiti.

At the NYR Daily, Colm Tóibín looks at the paintings of Pat Steir.

Peter Rukavina writes about how he has been inspired by the deaths of the Underhays to become more active in local politics.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society shares his research goals from 1976.

Window on Eurasia notes the conflicts between the Russian Orthodox Church and some Russian nationalists over the latter's praise of Stalin.

Arnold Zwicky looks at dragons in history, queer and otherwise.

The City of Mississauga is encouraging residents to take part in a postal campaign to push for independence from Peel Region. Global News reports.

A Montréal city councillor wants the city to try to get a world's fair in 2030. CTV reports.

April Lindgren at The Conversation considersthe important role that local media in Thunder Bay can play in dealing, with, among other issues, Indigenous concerns.

Amy Wilentz considers at The Atlantic whether France, after the devastation of Notre-Dame in Paris, should perhaps contribute to the reconstruction of the cathedral of Port-au-Prince, a decade after its destruction in the earthquake that devastated an already poor ex-French Haiti.

Ben Rogers at Open Democracy makes the case for seeing London, despite its position as a global city, as also a metropolis inextricably at the heart of England, too.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait considers the possibility that interstellar objects like 'Oumuamua might help planets consdense in young systems.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly explains the genesis of news stories.

Centauri Dreams explores a remarkable thesis of somehow intelligent, living even, mobile stars.

Citizen Science Blog reports on an ingenious effort by scientists to make use of crowdsourcing to identify venerable trees in a forest.

The Crux takes a look at the idea of rewilding.

D-Brief takes a look at how active auroras can lead to satellite orbits decaying prematurely.

Bruce Dorminey reports on a new finding suggesting that the suspected exomoon given the name Kepler-162b I does not exist.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the incident that led to the concept of Stockholm syndrome.

Language Log takes a look at the idea of someone having more than one native language. Is it even possible?

Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at how trade war with the EU is hurting the bourbon industry of the United States.

The LRB Blog reports on the aftermath in Peru of the startling suicide of former president Alan Garcia.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that rising health care costs have hurt the American savings rate and the wider American economy.

Russell Darnley takes a look at the innovative fish weirs of the Aborigines on Australia's Darling River.

The NYR Daily takes a look at Russian Doll and the new era of television.

The Planetary Society Blog notes the formal end of the Mars rover expeditions. Spirit and Opportunity can rest easy.

Drew Rowsome praises Out, a one-man show at Buddies in Bad Times exploring what it was like to be out in the late 1970s.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that a search for dark matter has revealed evidence of the radioactive decay of pretty but not perfectly stable isotope xenon-124.

Window on Eurasia considers the likely impact of new Ukrainian president Volodymir Zelensky on Ukrainian autocephaly.

Arnold Zwicky celebrated the penguin drawings of Sandra Boynton, starting from her World Penguin Day image from the 25th of April.

Two British tourists were kicked out of their Niagara Falls hotel for supporting striking workers at an attached restaurant. CBC reports.

Members of different Christian minorities from the Middle East living in London, Ontario, have united to create a new community church. CBC reports.

Le Devoir looks at how Québec City is torn by a debate: Should it build a streetcar or a subway?

The British Columbia city of surrey is currently rounding up its rogue peacocks. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities reports on how the Japanese city of Onagawa, hit by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, is trying to rebuild without sprawl.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how the dinosaurs seem to have been killed off 65 million years ago by a combination of geological and astronomical catastrophes.

Centauri Dreams examines Kepler 1658b, a hot Jupiter in a close orbit around an old star.

The Crux reports on the continuing search for Planet Nine in the orbits of distant solar system objects.

D-Brief notes how researchers have begun to study the archaeological records of otters.

Cody Delistraty profiles author and journalist John Lanchester.

Far Outliers reports on the terrible violence between Hindus and Muslims preceding partition in Calcutta.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing suggests the carnival of the online world, full of hidden work, is actually an unsatisfying false carnival.

Hornet Stories reports that São Paulo LGBTQ cultural centre and homeless shelter Casa 1 is facing closure thanks to cuts by the homophobic new government.

io9 reports on one fan's attempt to use machine learning to produce a HD version of Deep Space Nine.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the increasing trend, at least in the United States and the United Kingdom, to deport long-term residents lacking sufficiently secure residency rights.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the literally medieval epidemics raging among the homeless of California.

Marginal Revolution considers how the Book of Genesis can be read as a story of increasing technology driving improved living standards and economic growth.

The NYR Daily interviews Lénaïg Bredoux about #MeToo in France.

The Planetary Society Blog considers the subtle differences in colour between ice giants Uranus and Neptune, one greenish and the other a blue, and the causes of this difference.

The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle shares beautiful photos of ice on a stream as he talks about his creative process.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers what the universe was like back when the Earth was forming.

Window on Eurasia reports on a statement made by the government of Belarus that the survival of the Belarusian language is a guarantor of national security.

Arnold Zwicky was kind enough to share his handout for the semiotics gathering SemFest20.

Hornet Stories looks at the history of the queercore punk movement.

Sarah Fonseca at them examines the subgenre of the lesbian pulp novel.

CBC carries the argument of drag queen Halal Bae that, after RuPaul made drag mainstream, it's up to new artists like her to broaden the scope of the genre.

I am strongly inclined to agree with Andrew Sullivan that the closeted corruption documented by Frédéric Martel in the Roman Catholic Church is morally repugnant. His New York blog has it.

Kai Cheng Thom writes at Daily Xtra about the #MeToo movement in the context of queer communities, and the extra burdens it--and we--face.

Plans for a residential development in Kingston's west-end Graceland district have raised environmental concerns. Global News reports.

HuffPostQuebec shares the exciting plans for expanding and modernizing the complex around the Oratoire Saint-Joseph.

CityLab notes how, despite having a declining black population, Chicago is set to elect a black mayor.

VICE looks at the bars and nightclubs in uptown New Orleans that, in the 1970s, hosted the city's jazz and funk scenes.

Guardian Cities reports on the murga, the latest dance/pop culture craze in Buenos Aires.

What, exactly, happened with the establishment of Ukraine's Orthodox church as co-equal to the other national orthodox churches united under the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople? Open Democracy explains.

This article in The Atlantic takes a look at how children, now growing up, are responding to the fact that so much of their lives has been put out on the Internet already.

I agree entirely with this article's argument about the authenticity of the Chinese-American cuisine served by Panda Express.

It's a bit ironic that Eminem, of all people, stans for The Punisher. VICE reports.

Writing at The Conversation, Andrew Dewman makes an excellent argument as to the importance of Chris Claremont, not only as an author of the X-Men but as a shaper of our modern pop culture, more open (for instance) to women and minority heroes.

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[PHOTO] "Jesus Saves", take 2
[PHOTO] Our Mother Mary in blue, Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Church (1515 Queen Street West)
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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
[PHOTO] "Jesus Saves", St. Clair Avenue West
[BLOG] Some Sunday links
[URBAN NOTE] Ten Toronto links
[PHOTO] "Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus"
[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Koreans, Italians, Irish, Albino Carreira, #threetorontos
[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
[BLOG] Some Monday links
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Entries tagged with christianity

[PHOTO] "Jesus Saves", take 2

[PHOTO] Our Mother Mary in blue, Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Church (1515 Queen Street West)

[BLOG] Five JSTOR Daily links (@jstor_daily)

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[PHOTO] "Jesus Saves", St. Clair Avenue West

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[URBAN NOTE] Ten Toronto links

[PHOTO] "Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus"

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Koreans, Italians, Irish, Albino Carreira, #threetorontos

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Mississauga, Montréal, Thunder Bay, Port-au-Prince, London

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Niagara Falls, London, Québec City, Surrey, Onagawa

[BLOG] Some Friday links

[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: queercore, lesbian pulp novels, drag, Church closeted, #MeToo

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Montréal, Chicago, New Orleans, Buenos Aires

[NEWS] Five culture links: Orthodox, children online, Panda Express, Eminem stans, Chris Claremont