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Missionary Education: Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives | Kim Christiaens, Idesbald Goddeeris and Pieter Verstraete (editors)

Missionary Education: Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives

BOOK | Missionary Education: Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives | Kim Christiaens, Idesbald Goddeeris and Pieter Verstraete (editors)

Jan van Eyck, "Annunciation", c. 1430-35 | National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

At Van Eyck’s Optical Revolution, the Sublime meets the Spiritual

LONG READ | ‘Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution’ at the MSK Ghent is the largest exhibition of the Early Netherlandish pioneer Jan van Eyck, whose innovations with oil painting and realism enabled us to see the world like we had never seen before. But is there more in his sublime portrayal of reality? Rinald D’Souza reviews.

British and Indian officers of the 57th [Wilde's] Rifles [Estaires La Bassée Road, France]. 6 August 1915

The Memory of Indians in Flanders Fields

It was at school in Goa that we first read John McCrae’s1 popular war poem, In Flanders Fields. Much as the history teacher emphasized its historical contexts, the English miss…