Ten years ago, 19 men crashed two passenger jets into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon. A fourth jet, destination unknown, crashed in the fields of Pennsylvania. A painful gash was cut into our hearts that day. For ten years we have sought to right the wrongs [...]
“Without an appreciation for grace and beauty, there’s no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them!” – Calvin No, that is not a quote from John Calvin but rather the eponymous child from Calvin and Hobbes. I want pick back up with this metaphor of languages I talked about in my last [...]
I spent four days this last week at the Kindlings Fest conference up on Orcas Island. Kindlings is an organization dedicated “to rekindle the spiritual, intellectual and creative legacy of Christians in culture.” The theme of this year’s conference was “turning mourning into dancing.” Most of the art centered around how we deal with grief [...]
I need to be working on revising my thesis but I’ve been putting it off since finishing school. This is bad. I’m posting the final section of my thesis here along with the full text which you can download in the hope that you’ll help keep me accountable to work on this. Anyway, below is [...]
By now you may have seen on Twitter or Facebook that I gave my thesis defense this afternoon. I’m going to hold off posting the Artist as Prophet section until I’ve gotten some more feedback from some people who are reading it, but I’ll go ahead and post my conclusions here for you to hopefully [...]
