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Sunday, May 27, 2012
A brief on John Baldessari (no boring art), narrated by Tom Waits (no boring art).
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Competition: the process by which for me to win, you must lose.
“…the failure of competition as the inability to recognize that trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Cooperation is the context for each of us to value doing well for ourselves and others. Competition is the context for each of us who believes that doing well results from beating others.”
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Empire & Neighborhood
“baptismal identity…”
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
“Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.”Job 13:15
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
“If your congregation sings only Hillsong choruses, then their emotional repertoire will be limited to about two different feelings (God-you-make-me-happy, and God-I’m-infatuated-with-you) – considerably less even than the emotional range of a normal adult person. It is why entire congregations sometimes seem strangely adolescent, or even infantile: they lack a proper emotional range, as well as a suitable adult vocabulary. But in the psalter one finds the entire range of human emotion and experience – a range that is vastly wider than the emotional capacity of any single human life.”Faith and Theology: Psalms for all seasons: a contemporary psalter (via gmd)
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
“Thou doubtest because thou lovest the truth. Some would willingly believe life but a phantasm, if only it might for ever afford them a world of pleasant dreams: thou art not of such! Be content for a while not to know surely. The hour will come, and that ere long, when, being true, thou shalt behold the very truth, and doubt will be for ever dead. Scarce, then, wilt thou be able to recall the features of the phantom. Thou wilt then know that which thou canst not now dream. Thou hast not yet looked the Truth in the face, hast as yet at best but seen him through a cloud. That which thou seest not, and never didst see save in a glass darkly—that which, indeed, never can be known save by its innate splendour shining straight into pure eyes—that thou canst not but doubt, and art blameless in doubting until thou seest it face to face, when thou wilt no longer be able to doubt it. But to him who has once seen even a shadow only of the truth, and, even but hoping he has seen it when it is present no longer, tries to obey it—to him the real vision, the Truth himself, will come, and depart no more, but abide with him for ever.”George MacDonald, Lilith
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Monday, May 21, 2012
art is about courage, discipline, faithfulness and repentance.
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Today is Ascension Sunday- Two years ago I was struggling to prepare a sermon on the ascension of Christ and finally gave up, drove out to North Bend, WA and created this video instead. I think it captured something that I can’t quite put a finger on.
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
“…[T]he percentage of graduate-degree holders who receive food stamps or some other aid more than doubled between 2007 and 2010. During that three-year period, the number of people with master’s degrees who received food stamps and other aid climbed from 101,682 to 293,029, and the number of people with Ph.D.’s who received assistance rose from 9,776 to 33,655, according to tabulations of microdata done by Austin Nichols, a senior researcher with the Urban Institute.”From Graduate School to Welfare - Graduate Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via shaverfamily)
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
“But comparing the cost of foods by weight or portion size shows that grains, vegetables, fruit and dairy foods are less expensive than most meats or foods high in saturated fat, added sugars or salt.”
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
“While no serious novelist knows for sure where his writing comes from, I have the strongest feeling that, whatever else the benefits of the Catholic faith, it is of particularly felicitous use to the novelist. Indeed, if one had to design a religion for novelists, I can think of no better. What distinguishes Judeo-Christianity in general from other world religions is its emphasis on the value of the individual person, its view of man as a creature in trouble, seeking to get out of it, and accordingly on the move. Add to this anthropology the special marks of the Catholic Church: the sacraments, especially the Eucharist, which, whatever else they do, confer the highest significance upon the ordinary things of the world, bread, wine, water, touch, breath, words, talking, listening - and what do you have? You have a man in a predicament and on the move in a real world of real things, a world which is a sacrament and a mystery; a pilgrim whose life is a searching and a finding. Such a view of man as wayfarer is, I submit, nothing else than a recipe for the best novel-writing from Dante to Dostoevsky.”
Walker Percy, “The Holiness of the Ordinary,” in Signposts in a Strange Land
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
“so much dependsWilliam Carlos Williams, ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’
upon
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a red wheel
barrow
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glazed with rain
water
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beside the white
chickens.”
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
“If you shy away from sense experience, you will not be able to read fiction; but you will not be able to apprehend anything else in this world either, because every mystery that reaches the human mind, except in the final stages of contemplative prayer, does so by way of the senses. Christ didn’t redeem us by a direct intellectual act, but became incarnate in human form, and he speaks to us now through the mediation of a visible Church. All this may seem a long way from the subject of fiction, but it is not, for the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.”Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners, 176.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
“As a human being, Jesus Christ was as subject to the daily as any of us. And I see both the miracle of manna [in the desert] and incarnation of Jesus Christ as scandals. They suggest that God is intimately concerned with our very bodies and their needs, and I doubt that this is really what we want to hear. Our bodies fail us, they grow old, flabby and feeble, and eventually they lead us to the cross. How tempting it is to disdain what God has created, and to retreat into a comfortable Gnosticism. The members of the Heaven’s Gate cult regarded their bodies as obstacles to perfection, mere ‘containers’ to be discarded on their way to what they called ‘a level beyond human.’ The Christian perspective could not be more different; it views the human body as our God-given means to salvation, for beyond the cross God has effected resurrection.”Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries, 11.
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