Category: Reflection
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The value of 'Consider'
Mako Fujimura as written a compelling reasoning for engaging in the arts. I particularly liked this bit: If we proclaim the gospel without “considering the lilies,” our preaching and teaching will have an activist’s urgency and edge, but it will be filled with fear. We will have the right information, but we’ll be devoid of…
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Do you not know that we are planning a wedding feast?
This is wonderful, the (brilliant) painter Makoto Fujimura writes an open letter to north-american-churches (although I think that this also has resonances for all churches in the western world). Makoto writes about the how and why art and artists got pushed to the margins and in many cases outside the church. Of course there are…
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In the beginning
Canvas print and related video piece. A visual meditation on the first words in St John’s account of the incarnation.
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What do you want?
If I asked you: “what do you want?” – how would you answer? How would I answer? To get to know someone we will assume we need to know various things , “what do you know?”, “what do you believe?”, “what’s your job?”. We do this to investigate and evaluate people, socially, religiously and morally.…
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Just like Clint
I wrote this poem as I reflected on Clint Eastwood’s excellent film ‘Grand Torino’. To those of you who’ve seen it this will hopefully make a lot of sense, to those of you who haven’t, I hope its poetic enough to meaningful in its own right. Just Like Clint (after Grand Torino) I have no classic…
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Beckoned in to the future
I just discovered this in the archives of my old blog, the original post was dated September 2006. It seems worth while to post it again here: One idea which as captured my imagination in recent years, is the idea of seeing time as us being drawn into God’s future. … imagine God at the end…
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Grace and epiphany
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.…
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The Real Work
The following is a poem by one of my favorite poets. The Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is…
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Children of Grace
Every so often you read a book that you just love, to the extent that it seems a waste to rush it, but all the same you chug through it. Then you tell everyone about it, and then even that’s not enough and you start to think of who you could buy copies for. Culture…