I have never been one for apologizing about not posting here on my blog. I typically wait until I have something meaningful to say–at least in my mind–before writing. I have been working through a lot of things in my head the last couple months but I don’t know that any of them are ready [...]
“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 [...]
“When I look back on my own conversion, I cannot credit a gospel tract or an altar call or an exposition of John 3:16. I had encountered these things many times over in childhood and had learned to mistrust them because of the lies my church in the fundamentalist South had told me. Rather, nature, [...]
“Like most writers who have been subjected to the editing process, [Thomas] Jefferson thought the final text [of the Declaration of Independence] depressingly inferior to his original, and, like most writers, he was wrong.” -Bill Bryson, Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
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 [...]
