Arts & Aesthetics
Van Morrison redux
by Jeff Miller
Ok, let’s try this again….
I have had a hard time recently listening to anything other than Van Morrison. Some of you just clicked your mouse. For everyone else, let me explain. As some of you know, I won tickets to the Van concert in Birmingham recently. I took …
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Generating Fodder
by Tim Lien
We already know that the world will mock, scorn, and laugh at Christians for their seemingly foolish beliefs. I’m ok with that.
We will never be considered to be the intellectual and sophisticated darlings of any age. I’m ok with that.
But do we have to make it …
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On behalf of God…..
by Jeff Miller
Our book group recently finished discussing Paradise Lost by John Milton. It was a fascinating read on many levels. One discussion thread that repeated itself was the issue of problems that arise when God is in the cast of characters.
Any time you set about to describe the ways of …
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Reflections from a Balcony
by Clay Staggs
Today is my last day of vacation at the beach. Yesterday afternoon I was sitting on the balcony at sunset and watching the waves crash in on the shore and I began to contemplate how beautiful God’s creation is.
Jeff Miller frequently talks about human creativity as being one …
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Worship as the object of art, not vice versa
by Jeff Miller
I had mentioned in the May Salt & Light that I would post some of the content of my article on Riverblog for discussion.
Here it is, feel free to jump in!
(Greg Wilbur recently posted the following quotation on his blog. If you have opportunity, visit his site, you will …
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St Olaf Christmas Festival
by Jeff Miller
One of the events I look forward to every Christmas season is the Christmas Festival at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. It is simply one of the finest presentations of Advent and Christmas music in the country. It was designed as a worship service and employs several different choirs …
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Kindly Whispering Illogical Obscenities
by Tim Lien
A writer friend of mine sent me a poem by Jack Gilbert entitled â??Failing and Flying.â? This person told me that this was a poem to â??savor.â? Read on:
Jack Gilbert: Winner of the National Book Critics Award for Refusing Heaven (2005), published in The New …
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and just in time for Easter, too
by Peggy Drinkard
Just as I was in the process of writing a Salt and Light article about chocolate Easter crosses and such, I ran across this. Now the chocolate crosses at the local grocery seem tame. Check it out…or maybe you’d rather not.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330 …
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Beauty Works
by Jeff Miller
I was trolling through some back issues of Credenda Agenda recently & came across this article about beauty & the lost concepts of architecture as art. Function and form (like science and religion) are not antithetical, but in proper aspects, exponentially complimentary.
We have developed a very narrow and short sighted view …