The King Comes: Seeing the Nativity Through Scripture
by Daniel R. Spanjer All people know that they need salvation, even if the salvation for which they hope is that of a meal when they are...
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Aug 6, 2009
A Poem from the Bend in the Trail
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Jul 30, 2009
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Jul 26, 2009
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Jul 23, 2009
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Jul 22, 2009
Working Toward Ten Thousand Hours
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Jul 15, 2009
I used to be a snob, but I’m better than that now (and better than you)
C.S. Lewis famously warned us of the dangers of chronological snobbery, and he is right on. My own snobbery begins in my mind with this...
Jun 22, 2009
Goodbye Solo: A Movie Review
There’s a form of human despondency that runs so deep, that a man gives up. Such a level of despair is manifest in many ways but most...
Jun 2, 2009
Evening Art
Thunder is rolling behind me like a boulder down a mountain. The lightning is so frequent it feels like there are only flashes of...
May 25, 2009
Poems for Boneheads: A Criticism of the Artsy-Fartsy
I’ve never paid much attention to poetry. For example: At an uppity exhibit here in Nashville I stood in front of a 12″ x 12″ off-white...
May 21, 2009
The Future of Media
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Even my favorite magazine finally found itself the victim (hopefully not fatality) of the...
Apr 28, 2009
An Intuitive Response
I recently attended the Festival of Faith & Music at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Famed painter Makato Fujimara was there to...
Apr 14, 2009
Curious, Georges
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Apr 12, 2009
The Ragman, the Ragman, the Christ!
I was tired this morning when the bus rolled in. The last night of the tour left me somehow wired and sleepy at the same time, so when I...
Mar 24, 2009
Will, Limitation, and Art: A Quote from G.K. Chesterton
Note: This is from his classic book Orthodoxy; the chapter, The Suicide of Thought taken from a larger paragraph discussing the Will. All...
Mar 23, 2009
Make Something: Creation, Sub-Creation, and Us
There are ways of seeing truth that you find and there are some that find you. An illustration found me, inevitably, one day as I...
Mar 10, 2009
A Small Book with a Large Message: “Art and the Bible”
Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person who is a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the...
Mar 9, 2009
Song of the Day: Pretending to (and Towards) Believe
It seems as if most of my son’s sentences begin like this: “Pretend…” Take, for example, the following actual quote: “Pretend the girl...
Mar 1, 2009
In a Hole in the Ground There Lived an Artist
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Feb 17, 2009
Only So Much You Can Say
It was an unexpected interview. Not that fact that I was interviewing Roger O’Donnell, longtime keyboardist for The Cure and Thompson...
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