One of the pivotal moments in the 2010 Academy Award Winner Blindside comes in the form of a response to an Alfred Tennyson poem. Blindside is in the fine tradition of the bildungsroman*. In Blindside, Big Mike (Quinton Aaron) has…
Frustration with the state of ‘modern’ art sometimes leads Christians to long nostalgically for the days of the ‘anonymous medieval craftsman.’ Those were the days when men were men, and artists, well … weren’t. The ‘great artist,’ it is often…
Joel Sheesley’s work embodies an ethic of love for his domestic and local environment. Each painting is a world seen through the eyes of a devoted lover. Sheesley says in an interview with James Romaine, “I’ve recently started to think…
I love quilts. The whole tradition has always intrigued me. Actually, I have recently taken up quilt-making myself (which has proved to be MUCH harder than one might expect, but that’s another story!). Attempting to actually make a quilt rather…
This article, by the conservative theologian Douglas Wilson, suggests that advertising is the most successful art form today. A primary reason he gives is that it is made by collaborative effort–a sort of guild. The loss of collaboration in other…
I’ve been particularly intrigued by the conversation that has come from Jim’s post on Monday about SPJP, especially Jim’s question in the comments about whether ‘watching and contemplation can be recovered as an act of worship’. There has been a…
Why attach a normal gutter spout on a church when you can have one shaped like a dragon? Many Christians today would answer that question in pragmatic or financial terms. Because a ‘normal gutter spout’ works just as well…
WordPress keeps updates flowing, so there are two new ways to let us know that you like our posts. One way (if you have a Twitter account) is to click the Tweet button at the bottom of the post. In…
What does your profile picture say about you? What about your avatar? A little while ago Ben Myers shared some thoughts towards the development of a Theology of the Avatar in a post titled Once more on the self in…