And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, it’s All Saints Day. Which everbody ignores because it’s the day after Halloween.
The nights are gettuing darker. To avoid depression, doctors recommend artificial light, including candles. Churches have candles.
Wasn’t Pope Francis just brilliant.
https://mega.nz/file/tzVVTIDI#wiLo4HZjpsamPaDUZvrMojRNSJhAwQm7F7BCz82HRLI
Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earing” has always been regarded as a very good painting of a pretty young woman. But we now know that she is in fact Mary Magdalen and the pearl is the soul. It turns out that all Vermeer’s ostensibly secular paintings are metaphors for religious themes, that for some reason he decided not to make explicit. In fact, all secular paintings everywhere are metaphors for Christianity. This is why painting is a spiritual matter.
https://mega.nz/file/VusEzBYJ#nvhI2k8dWfTx4NGYMS5vx2ufilHepjHW6pEWTEHyDho
And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, Berlin’s cemetery cafes. It’s also nearly All Hallows Eve, which, depending on how fanatical a Christian you are, is either a blasphemous sabbath, or a fun time to dress up and eat sweets.
Which brings me to Jesus rising from the dead, which he definitely did. And although he definitely conquered death, and all our relatives and friends definitely go to heaven, we Christians still mysteriously mourn the dead and cherish our lives.
https://mega.nz/file/F69VWRrR#Ev0QrHZNSGdIC_DqI2RonSAq3Gte1SnxNK9eIjzVZio
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/28/cemetery-cafes-trend-berlin-germany
President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping will meet to agree a trade deal. Trump has to do a deal with China because that’s the one country that he can’t just bully into submission.
International trade affects us all in the prices we pay and the goods we can buy. It is also a source of cultural exchange between countries. A certain well known prophet agreed with this.
https://mega.nz/file/Au8jjCLB#CRj3rK_9tL2eDHJvKYHsvWClKPn3axdpH-TV2VQuCXI
Platitude of the Day 