Tag Archives: Art

Rembrandt And Good Friday

29 Mar

As you read this, I hope you might take a few minutes this Good Friday to read and chew on the words below.  Place yourself at the sites of each biblical scene, and try to picture yourself there.  Here is a piece of music that I hope you turn on in the background as you [...]

Grace in the Public Sphere

11 Feb

I remember growing up and becoming confused by the term “Christian Music.”  I always assumed that a Christian artist created this music and wrote only about God.  They could only sing about the love of Jesus or something of that nature.  It was often lamented when a formerly “Christian” band crossed over into the secular [...]

Avatar and Stewardship

15 Jul

I watched Avatar again with my family and was impressed once more by the visuals (thanks to the glorious nature of Blu-Ray).  I was trying to interpret the movie second time around in light of the environmentalist movement and see if it was a radical tree-hugger movie.  While there certainly were themes of environmentalism, it [...]

Thoughts on Avatar

21 Jan

As mentioned in many blogs, articles and Facebook status updates, ‘Avatar’ was a film that lived up to the hype on the technological side.  The visuals were stunning and the technology truly put you on the ground of the extraterrestrial planet called Pandora.  While there were certainly blatant and subtle political themes that were interwoven [...]