Writing a nice, clever, well paced movie review is not my forte. Instead, I’m going to write a blog post – a couple of reflections, notes, and reactions as a Christian on this last weekends latest flick – Christopher Nolan’s Inception. First, Christians should be aware of the stories being told by others. How do [...]
Categories: Art,Creativity,Film,Lifestyle,Storytelling
Tagged: art, Christian art, Christopher Nolan, false forgiveness, Inception, storytelling, truth
“The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are highways into the center of a reality which cannot be glimpsed, let alone grasped, any other way. The present world is good, but broken and in any case incomplete; art of all kinds enables us to understand that paradox [...]
Categories: Art,Books,Lifestyle,Quotes
Tagged: art, Books, N.T. Wright, paradox
I happened upon this blog post today by Randy Elrod. I liked a number of the things he had to say including… Regular exercise, the liturgy, holidays, periodic vacations, festivals, harvest, the Sabbath, a shower in the morning, a cup of coffee on the porch before work, all provide seasonal rhythm in the chaos of [...]
Categories: Blogging,Creativity,Lifestyle,Quotes
Tagged: art, creativity, liturgy, Sabbath, seasons
“I see tonight that in spiritual work, if nowhere else,the character of the worker decides the quality of the work.” – Jim Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty
Categories: Quotes
Tagged: art, Jim Elliot, Quotes
“In corpses, entropy has won; the brain reasserts those values which hold off dissolution, struggling to keep the mind intact and preserve the city, the mind’s save preserve. Art rediscovers, generation by generation, what is necessary to humanness.” – John Gardner, On Moral Fiction, p. 6
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Tagged: art, John Gardner, Quotes