“Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”
– Hercule Poirot
Atheism Poster
August 27th, 2007Copy and send this poster to friends reading books by Dawkins or Hitchens, courtesy of C. Michael Patton at Parchment and Pen:
Radical Feminist Calls for Religion to Lead the Artistic Renaissance
August 4th, 2007
Who would expect a self-avowed pro-choice, libertarian atheist to call for a renaissance of America’s fine arts through religion?
Pyromaniacs On The Emerging Church
July 25th, 2007
Over at Pyromaniacs Phil Johnson has produced a series of “original motivational posters based on the jargon of Emerging Christianity.” They “hope these have helped unpack some of the jargon of post-evangelicalism for some who are groping for ways to explain it succinctly.”
Can humor clarify the Emerging Church’s relationship with Post-Modernism?
What Is the Music of the Kingdom of God?
July 2nd, 2007
Recently God has been asking me to think about music and its role in worshipping Him. I know He has because the subject has been just about everywhere I turn.
The music debate has raged in the church ever since harmony was labeled the tool of the Enemy.
Two of my favorite Christian website discussion groups have been generating a great deal of heat and light on the subject with comments like:
Some music (sound not words) is “pornophony” – aural pornography, obscenity in auditory rather than visual form.
Rock music is inherently neurotic, nihilistic, self-centered, incapable of either inducing or expressing the necessary Christian aspects of worship
Waltz music, operatic music, and secular classical music do not belong in a worship service.
Some music is inherently decadent and corrupt and cannot be sanctified.
Interview for WRECKED FOR THE ORDINARY
June 13th, 2007
Recently I was interviewed by Wrecked for the Ordinary, the website of some very interesting young Christians whose mission statement reads: “Our hearts truly desire beauty, seeking it in all aspects of creation. This section features those who find it and capture it so well in their creative work.”
Check it out, and them out here.
Do You Like Modern Art?
May 11th, 2007
The always provocative “Spengler” at Asia Times has a very strong essay, “Why You Pretend to Like Modern Art”
The writer’s muscular prose style, erudition, and anonymity have made a sport of guessing his identity. (Nominees range from V. S. Naipaul and Henry Kissinger through John Farrenkopf, Dmitry Shlapentokh, Nick Land, and David P. Goldman, to Mark Steyn and Salman Rushdie.)
To whet your appetite, here are a few morsels from his latest opinion:
“You pretend to like modern art because you want to be creative. In fact, you are not creative, not in the least…You have your heart set on being creative because you want to worship yourself, your children, or some pretentious impostor, rather than the god of the Bible. Absence of faith has not made you more rational. On the contrary, it has made you ridiculous in your adoration of clownish little deities, of whom the silliest is yourself. G K Chesterton said that if you stop believing in God, you will believe in anything.”
