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…
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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….
Where are we going? Can I drive? Some Thoughts on Pluralism
I read two blog posts recently written by Richard Beck (1, 2) in which he reviews and summarizes a book that sounds extremely interesting. It is a book entitled The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends by S. Mark Heim that deals with the issue of Religious Pluralism. I can say…
Trust me, this is why everyone needs “faith.”
My definition of “faith” (in a spiritual/religious sense), has been evolving for as long as I can remember. In some ways I hesitate to even speculate on a definition because this sort of implies permanence on a certain level. But nevertheless, I’m feeling particularly lead to reinterpret and flesh out how I think about the…
Faith Seeking Understanding
I’m finally reading Catherine Keller’s book On The Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process. It’s one that I’ve been wanting to read for a while and I am so glad that I have finally gotten to it. It is truly a beautiful work. I particularly liked this passage which gives a lovely definition of theology (page…
Wallace Stevens: Reality is The Product of Imagination
“To Wallace Stevens, reality is the product of the imagination, as it shapes the world. Because it is constantly changing as we attempt to find imaginatively satisfying ways to perceive the world, reality is an activity, not a static object. We approach reality with a piecemeal understanding, putting together parts of the world in an…
I don’t explain–I explore
“I don’t explain—I explore” –Marshall McLuhan It’s true. I’m still thinking about the LOST finale after almost a week. The more I reflect on it and the more I hear other people reflect on the story of LOST, the more I’m convinced of how much it can help people approach a better understanding of the…
Fortune by Dobby Gibson
Fortune We think we are little gods yet the one thing we fear most is to be left alone So we carve one another’s names into the desktops, drop rocks from the trestle. We invent and overuse the long vowel. To be loved, speak with your hands. To learn how, open a magazine and try…
Embodying the Abstract: Damon Lindelof Is A Great Thinker
“…because the one thing we can all relate to is character. And the harder thing to relate to are these sort of highfalutin concepts. And when we find ourselves getting away from the “who,” that’s when we start getting into trouble.” This quote came from Daman Lindeloff, one of the co-creators of LOST. He was…
Two Conceptions of Power
Robert Mesle describes what Bernard Loomer thinks about unilateral power: In a unilateral model, the burdens of inequality are borne most heavily by those who are weaker: “The natural and inevitable inequalities among individuals and groups become the means where by the estrangements in life become wider and deeper. The rich become richer, and the…