One of my earliest memories concerning art involved the exquisite woodcut block prints of Albrecht Durer (1471-1528). I’m uncertain where I came upon them,…
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
A discussion worth having From the beginning art has shown itself, in all its multiple forms, to be a window of insight into the…
Light at Ground Zero: St. Paul’s Chapel After 9/11 (Krystyna Sanderson, 2002)
Quiet in the center of a storm On 9/11 Americans watched in growing horror as planes flew into skyscrapers in lower Manhattan, as desperate…
Intruding Upon the Timeless (Gregory Wolfe, 2003)
Meditations on Art, Faith & Mystery For the generation growing up today, within the cultural thrall of postmodernity, it is almost impossible to fully…
Rouault-Fujimura: Soliloquies (Thomas S. Hibbs & Makoto Fujimura, 2002)
Form and abstraction, beautifully In 2009, the Dillon Gallery on West 25th Street in New York City held a show featuring the work of…
Notes from the House of the Dead (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861)
A place of cold suffering On July 7, 1945, when Stalin shipped Alexander Solzhenitsyn off to a remote and brutal prison camp in Siberia…
World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013)
A reasonable fear The final words uttered by Brad Pitt, the hero of World War Z, is actually the moment that the film comes…
Francis Schaeffer: A Mind and Heart for God (Bruce Little, 2010), Schaeffer on the Christian Life: Countercultural Spirituality (William Edgar, 2013)
Two on Francis Schaeffer: A mentor making sense of things In the summer of 1981 friends helped us pack our belongings into a rented…
The Forbidden Bird (a short story)
Art / Culture / Ordinary Life
The Forbidden Bird Far beneath the gaze of perfect clouds drifting through a peerless twilight sky, there ran two children down a winding forest…
The Other F Word (Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, 2011)
When punkers meet fatherhood Punk rock is no longer a novel phenomenon, and like most things in our consumerist society, has gone mainstream. It…