Monthly Archives: January 2008
Arts and Entertainment Ministries
I was culling back through my emails and noticed one that I must have missed somewhere along the way. It was from a pastor named Joel Pelsue down in Los Angeles where he runs a ministry called Arts and Entertainment … Continue reading
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Beauty and Race
I talked with some beautiful people last week. The Northwest Church has a history of doing special events on MLK Sunday, having long been interested in racial reconciliation. This year, I invited five panelists (two black men, two black women, … Continue reading
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Beauty is Tension
Sometime back in the 1990′s, a book was published by the Theatre Communications Guild (I think) that dealt in performance anthropology. The book chronicled performance traditions from cultures around the world, and one of the ideas the studies explored was … Continue reading
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Beauty is Order
This sounds static, suggesting at first glance symmetry, a stolid arrangement of properties that 50′s housewives might call beautiful, but to the eyes and hearts of the postmodern…boring. For the wilder romantic, order means predictability means oppression (in the realm … Continue reading
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Beauty is Relationship
When it comes to perception, we start with the senses. We are a visual culture, and in casual usage, the word “beauty” is most often associated with what we see. Beauty that strikes us visually usually involves a pleasing or … Continue reading
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