Don’t run anymore. Quiet. How softly it rains
On the roofs of the city. How perfect
Engaging Culture with Culture Through Acts of Creative Excellence
Documentary: “PressPausePlay”
PressPausePlay from House of Radon on Vimeo.
A powerful movie asking important questions about the digitization and democratization of art.
The Umbrella by Jennifer Grotz
The clouds grew thick the way gray fur
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The Art of “Sola Scriptura”
“Not a formless sublime exceeding and annihilating the beautiful, but an endless display of beauty, surpassing the beautiful as the ever more beautiful.” – David Bentley Hart
Sola Scriptura permeates the portion of protestant faith I have grown up within. It is a term which tends toward an epistemology that raises the written word above everything else, after all John 1:1 tells us, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” It is powerful, the word—both the spoken word that made everything that was made and the Word through whom life and light was given to “all mankind [as] the light [that] shines in the darkness” that cannot be overcome. But within that same tradition, the word is often eviscerated.
And What, Friends, Is Called a Road? by Gabriel Gudding
Alfonse Borysewicz - Your Own Soul
And what, friends, is called a road? If there is, friends, an island, akin to a river, resembling a fence, used in the purpose of swiftly moving bodies and goods, a hallway lined in names, an aisle through counties, a duct in webs, a gangway to seeds, a traveling of beings, a river composed of islands, a place of simultaneous attraction and repulsion, a place for the finding of place, an area of exchange like unto an immense abacus. This, friends, is called a road. Continue reading “And What, Friends, Is Called a Road? by Gabriel Gudding” »
Apologia by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Ken Weathersby - Inset Canvas
However innocent your life may have been, no Christian ought to venture to die in any other state than that of penitent.
—St. Augustine
21 by Derek Walcott
Hieronymus Bosch - Garden of Earthly Delights
May my enemy be assuaged by these waves
because they are beautiful even to his evil,
may the drizzle be a benediction to his heart
even as it is to mine; they say here that the devil
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