“It is every artist’s fantasy to run things. I know personally, I’d be happiest as dictator of a small island. The problem is that romantic artists are usually too disorganized to run their own lives, let alone societies. And most societies are too sensible to let them try it.” –Brad Holland Illustration by Brad Holland
Diary
Your Best Is Still Your Worst
Here is a cover of the song St. Augustine that my wife and I did this evening. The recording is kinda rough, hence the title of this post, but it was fun nonetheless. The song was written by Band of Horses and is one of my favorite tunes off their first recording. Enjoy! St. Augustine…
Technology weaving us into one planetary brain? Don’t be such a neuron!
I Read a super interesting article by Robert Wright in the NYT (via Micheal Dowd) about the evolution of technology. He starts out by making some simple observations about the effects technology has on people, such as being distracted easily or finding it hard to focus on one thing for very long, and the tendency…
Inner Freedom
When you are interiorly free you call others to freedom whether you know it or not…A free man or a free woman creates a space where others feel safe and want to dwell. Our world is so full of conditions, demands, requirements, and obligations that we often wonder what is expected of us. But when…
Exploring the Infinite
“Therefore the theology of negation is so necessary to the theology of affirmation that without it God would not be worshiped as the infinite God but as creature; and such worship is idolatry, for it gives to an image that which only belongs to truth itself.” –Nicholas of Cusa The only proper name for God,…
Biblical Literalism a Modern Invention?
Origen (c.185–254) was an early Christian writer, scholar and theologian. He is probably most well known for his desire to fuse Greek Philosophy with Christianity and for his eccentric doctrine of “the fabulous preexistence of souls” and also for his allegoric view of the Bible. Despite some of his more radical views, he was never…
The Bible: Inspiration and Divine Invitation
“Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar!” –Aaron Weis of mewithoutYou “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” (KJV) -2 Timothy 3:16 My friend Matthew Barlow and I recently had a conversation about Divine Inspiration and how people…
Truth-Flow
“In its improper reciprocity, Jesus initiates a radically mobile sense of truth. It moves like living water. The way [of Jesus] is a truth-flow. It bursts out of the territorialism of religion, of worship fixed here or there, mountain or Jerusalem, my group or yours, my church or your temple, mosque or yoga mat. “God…
Pimps, Hoe’s and Jesus
Great set of images here by David LaChapelle depicting who Jesus may have associated with in our day and age. I like the images because, as Kester Brewin and Berry Taylor note, they force us to “reappraise scenes from the gospels that have become over-familiar and domesticated.” Below are my three favorites, click here to…
Color Possesses Me: The Art of Paul Klee
Color possesses me. I don’t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. –Paul Klee Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off….