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Getting Groovy: The Return of Analog
Posted on 12/06/2013 | 1 CommentThere’s a trend afoot. More and more millennials, among others, are opting to listen to their music the old-fashioned way: on cassettes and on vinyl. While the trend may still be seen as niche, it’s fast-growing and worth watching. However,... -
Courting Camp: An Everyday Aesthetic
Posted on 10/06/2013 | No CommentsWhen postmodernity marked the “aestheticization” of reality, the lines between high and low culture collapsed and a sensibility devoted to seeing the world as a theater for aesthetic experience sprang into being. Camp, as inventoried in Susan Sontag’s seminal 1964... -
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The Cult, Fear, and Myth of the New: Three (conflicting) Narratives
Posted on 03/06/2013 | 6 CommentsIn a recent article titled How to Discourage Artists in the Church, Philip G. Ryken suggests that ‘[m]any Christian artists live between two strange worlds,’ caught between the oddities of the art world and the church world. Ryken writes about how... -
Is Christianity Unified?: A Perspective from True Blood
Posted on 20/05/2013 | 1 CommentOn Facebook several weeks ago, a friend mentioned in a passing status something about Christian unity and the division of denominations to which someone replied with a quote from Lewis’s introduction to On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius: ”We are all rightly... -
Making Room for Others: Creative Genius and Theology
Posted on 29/04/2013 | 11 CommentsThis post is long overdue, but I wanted to write it anyway. In a 2009 TED Talk titled “Your Elusive Creative Genius,” Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love fame spoke about the need for a way of thinking about artistic creativity that... -
Artists: Don’t Just Work; Be at Leisure!
Posted on 13/03/2013 | 3 CommentsAs a current 11th English teacher, I often have situations arise that give me new ways to consider the relationship between art, imagination, and the deeper meaning of life. For instance, recently I gave my students a creative assignment which... -
Face to Face v. Mediated Messages through the Millennia
Posted on 27/02/2013 | 1 CommentWhen it comes to catching up with grandma or the cousins, Skype is a fantastic tool. As a means of trying to convey the essence of yourself to a prospective employer, whom you have never met in person and who...
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