How we can make art out of something mundane – art not just for art’s sake (though this is meaningful also) but for the sake of finding the creator through doing activties of participatory worship, sacrmental living, etc. Thus we have the “church of art” below.The church has for a long time lacked creativity, I must say that Quakers have even further to go before they catch up with the already-far-behind Protestants. To attack one’s own spiritual life because it doesn’t fit into certain molds of piety is not the way to go about finding in roads to God.Rather we need to be schooled again in creativity – we need to find God in the novels, the movies, indie and folk music (all other types are must be void), the riding to and fro, the listening, and the silence.There is a balance of both.
Monthly Archives: December 2005
A review about “Bob Dylan – No Direction Home”
a great film about bob, the story bounces back and forth a bit too much makes it hard to follow at times but dylan is great as usual. See more about Bob Dylan – No Direction Home Technorati Tags: bob_dylan
Silence Would Be Better
Even when I ride the train home, or to work, a perfect time to be silent I am often anxious to break out the newest book I am reading (East of Eden currently) or pop in the ol’ earbuds and listen to some tunes.When I am home, silence is most fleeting.It is so easy to be distracted by everything, and this is why the spiritual life – or life flowing from the Spirit – is so difficult to grasp…. But don’t let me leave this store with nothing.”And this is my biggest fear with silence, that it will all come up empty.I wonder how busy people ever make time to just sit and listen to the Spirit of Christ.
Why Blog?
Not that its not acceptable to blog, but just that for some peopel there seems to be”little use.”I’ve found that blogging for me takes on more than just journaling, in fact I try to do very little of that, at least in the sense of the old “dear diary” kind of journaling…. Not only do I have to deal with every word I put onto the blog editor as a real part of my own thinking, but I also have to be willing to allow those thoughts to be formed, challenged, and/or encouraged by those who have for one reason or another decided to be a part of my online community.
under the green hill: Time Stands Still
under the green hill: Time Stands Still Here is more on the Christian Peacemaker Teams. Thanks Simon.
Western European Studies Section: WESSWEB
I found a page that explains who or what I am…
Pastor Comes President
Jim Brennemann, our beloved pastor (and my OT Prof.) is now becoming the president of Goshen college, we are really excited for him.
Spero News | Religious bloggers quiet about Christian hostages
Here’s an article from Spero News (google news also has it) that my blog made yesterday concerning the Christian Peacemaker Teams.
Last Night at the Knitting Factory
Jeremy, Noah, Lambert and I all went to the Knitting Factory last night to see our friend Alan, who has been going to our Mennonite church, rock it out with his band “Your Enemies Friends.”
Who Goes There? or Knowing the Betrayer…
I can’t imagine what brings people to come to the point where they strip the innocence of powerless individuals.We must tread carefully on such subjects, for those who are victims forever struggle to regain a self-identity apart from the violating act – and many of those who are victims lay outside our own empathetically solidarity.But we must move away from using dehumanizing terms for one another – terms that tie us to devilish deeds, terrorists, pedophiles, kidnappers, murders, etc. It is when we use these terms that we distinguish us from the other and once we have made those who we fear “the other” than we can dismiss them as human – they become non-redeemable, persons barely human and to be feared.Fear – something that the world is full of, is ultimately existence apart from trust…. And this is it, there is no hard fast solution to these problems, no scan-tron sheet, or standardized test that will fix the world’s problems – if we are to follow Christ we are going to have to get our hands dirty.-a final note- we can only hope to help heal the victim or/and the victimizer if we are first willing to hear the truth from these people – that is we must be willing to hear their own pains and struggles, and then we must be willing to be committed to their healing.