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R.E.M. R.I.P. – It’s the end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine.Music fans across the blogosphere posted and reposted the news that longtime Athens, Georgia band R.E.M. had decided, in their words, to “call it a day” and disband for the foreseeable future. As Michael Stipe said on their website:
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Tagged Faith, music, R.E.M., theology, U2, Your Neighbor's Hymnal
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3 Things U2 has that the Church needs: Life after Emergent and the “Iron Maypole” movements
Posted in art, belief, Bono, church, theology, U2, Uncategorized, Your Neighbor's Hymnal
Tagged bono, church, Jesus, music, theology, U2, Your Neighbor's Hymnal
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Smallville finale and claiming our baptismal identityAnother epic television narrative arch has been completed in classic bildungsroman fashion with a boy who has finally grown up and (literally) taken flight. Almost a year to the day that LOST completed its saga and resolved all the mysteries of the universe it spun for six years with a call to love beyond the grave, the decade long saga of Smallville finally paid off its promise and waited to … There’s more to read here.
Posted in art, Baptism, church, Comic books, faith, Smallville, Unbreakable
Tagged Baptism, church, Comic Books, Smallville, Smallville finale, Unbreakable
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Good Friday: Poetry for reflection from Auden, Berry, Cairns and LevertovStop All The Clocks Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
Posted in art, Denise Levertov, Georgia O'Keefe, Jesus, Lent, Poetry, theology, wendell berry, WH Auden
Tagged art, Bible, Denise Levertov, Easter, Good Friday, Jesus, Lent, Poetry for Good Friday, Scott Cairns, wendell berry, WH Auden
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True Myth – there is no faith without fantasyArtist Dan Meth recently posted a map of the ‘fantasy world’ that pulls together over 30 different fictional/fantasy worlds into one glorious landscape – Narnia, Middlearth, Earthsea, Wonderland, Never Never Land, Oz, Whoville, Florian, the Land of the Lost, you name it. What I love about the map is how by glancing at it I am drawn back into the narratives, characters, plotlines and epic grandeur of these places that … There’s more to read here. When The Fantastic Four becomes Three: Learning about life when death isn’t realToday Marvel Comics released Fantastic Four #587 which continued the story that began some 50 years ago with four people whose life was changed forever by a gamma radiation blast in space which changed them into the comic book heroes known as The Fantastic Four. Yet issue #587 is a game changer of sorts. Over two years in the making, the storyline for the Fantastic Four has come to an … There’s more to read here.
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Tagged art, Comic Books, Death, existential musings, Marvel, The Fantastic Four, The Human Torch, theology
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Top Ten Albums of 2010 – a season of light and a season of darkness“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” So wrote Charles Dickens in the opening line to The Tale of Two Cities. And yet this is only the beginning. As the rest of the sentence continues:
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Tagged art, church, Emergent, music, theology, top ten 2010, U2
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Dream Theology: To boldly go where no Freudian has gone beforeDue to my mad schedule of late with too many meetings, writing deadlines and seemingly endless crises to deal with, I haven’t been able to sleep well and finding myself needing to get up and work. As such, I am reliving the days of having an infant in the house where waking up every hour leaves you in a state where lack of sleep renders the line between dream, nightmare … There’s more to read here.
Posted in art, belief, Bible, existential musings, faith, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, theology
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Letter to the Board of IMAGE journal – making poetry in remembrance of ChristI have the honor of being appointed to the Board of Directors for IMAGE journal – a quarterly literary journal the seeks the intersection of faith and the arts. Quite a gift to be part of this amazing and deeply thoughtful journal. While housed at Seattle Pacific, IMAGE is an independent literary journal that has published work from writers and artists such as Anne Lamott, Wim Wenders, Luci Shaw, Kathleen Norris, … There’s more to read here.
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Tagged art, books, literature, Philosophy, theology
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What does love got to do with it? – Jean-Luc Marion and silly love songsI was in fourth grade when Paul McCartney’s musings in 1976 that ‘you think that people would’ve had enough of silly love songs, I look around me and I see it isn’t so…oh no…’ filled the airwaves. Retrofitted by Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman during a montage dance number in Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge in 2001, the question of whether there is a place for love anymore continues to perplex and … There’s more to read here. |
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