The word "sublime" came across the Facebook news feed this morning. I fell in love with "the sublime" in an old treatise, either 1st or 3rd century CE, attributed to a Greek tradition calls Longinus. On the Sublime lifted me into the ether of literary contemplation back in graduate school, and I've been on the …
Wordle on Love and Marriage
I decided to do a Wordle of yesterday's blog post on my 30 years of marriage. If you just look at it and make random sentences, you still get the idea. My only beef is the word "really" is way too big, which means I used it way too many times. I really have to …
Three Tall Women Demonstrate Why Art Matters
At 7:15 p.m. on this Wednesday evening I was in a bit of a huff. Mad, actually, because I couldn't find a parking place. I hate to pay for parking. And usually there's a spot lurking somewhere west of Seattle Center. But not tonight. I finally gave up, parked and payed, and headed across the …
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Does Art Matter?
I've rarely asked this question. I've always believed in my bones that it does. But in exiting paid ministry, in which lives can change pretty dramatically as a direct or indirect result of your work, I wonder not only about the theatre, but about art in general. Who gets their busted lives put back together …
A Christian Aesthetic
My intellect is getting a pretty robust workout these days, pressing some heavy reading about aesthetics, moral creativity (does that make anyone nervous? I'm loving it...), and the notion that surfaces may actually have substance. Just think, lots of people are designing things that are aimed straight at my amygdala, my pre-cognitive, emotional self, …
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