Bookplates
I am obsessed with Ex Libris (Bookplates). These images are from a site devoted to scanning images of old books. Superb. Do you have any bookplate images on file? If you created your own Ex Libris what would it look like?
Spinning Plates, or Fake Plastic Trees
Pardon me, but I must write about Radiohead again. Those who know me well are aware that I am a Radiohead fan extraordinaire. But then again, most true Radiohead fans are rabid and obsessive and passionately devoted to the band and their music. Maybe I’m not extraordinary in my fanhood in any sense at all… Randall asked who Radiohead is. My answer was to short. Really, Radiohead is: The Savior of 21st Century Rock. In the war to redefine the music industry, the Delaware has been crossed. Radiohead’s decision to independently release its new album “In Rainbows” in downloadable format next week, for whatever price fans wish to pay, has pop’s movers and shakers alternately applauding and flinching in the wake of the attack. But...
L’Engle on Revelation
L’Engle herself from Walking on Water, Reflections on Art and Faith, pg 27-28: Of course, because I am a struggling Christian, it’s inevitable that I superimpose my awareness of all that happened in the life of Jesus upon what I’m reading, upon Buber, upon Plato, upon the book of Daniel. But I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. To be truly Christian means to see Christ everywhere, to know him as all in all. I don’t mean to water down my Christianity into a vague kind of universalism, with Buddha and Mohammed all being more or less equal to Jesus–not at all! But neither do I want to tell God (or my friends) where he can and cannot be seen. We human beings far too often tend to codify God, to feel that we know where he is...
Art is
My Church is in the midst of trying to develop a more coherent vision for Music and Arts ministry, and a vision is not complete if it cannot be articulated. To that end a vision statement has been drafted; I’m fortunate enough to be one of those on which the statement is “tested.” I’ve posted the statement below and my response to it: The goal of the Music and Arts ministry of Heritage is: To CREATE inspiring works of beauty that ENGAGE the congregation with God, EXPRESS the God-given gifts and talents of individuals in the church, and ENHANCE the presentation of the message. Now the statement sounds pretty good. While I certainly understand the need for a pithy statement with plenty of action words, sometimes statements like this...