“Like the biblical prophet, the artist is often an outsider, one who stands apart and delivers a challenge to the community. The prophets of old employed many of the same tricks used by writers and artists: lofty rhetoric, apocalyptic imagery, biting satire, lyrical evocations of better times, and subversive irony. To be sure, the true [...]
This quote is from an essay I read today. It better articulates the importance of the role of art in relation to faith and justice than anything else I’ve read so far. ‘What happens is that we the viewers assume the role of the witnesses. … We are drawn into a confrontation and now have [...]
Driving around the other day I was following a car with a license plate frame that read, ‘If you’re living like there’s no God, you’d better be right.’ I had two reactions to that. My first, sarcastic reaction was wondering if anyone seriously thinks that license plate frame has ever caused a non-Christian driver to [...]
I had the greatest church experience I’ve had in a long time this last weekend. Know where it was? It wasn’t in any cathedral, sanctuary, or chapel. Nor was it in any amphitheater, auditorium, or high school gym. No, it was sitting in the living room of my family’s cabin up on Camano Island with [...]
Good magazine published an article a few days ago titled ‘In the Future, You Will Know Everything You Wish to Know’ on the value and importance of informal online education. Basically stating that we have reached a point where you can become an expert on any given subject simply through culling through various academic sources [...]
