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Thursday :: July 2, 2009
The Habit of Being: A Portrait of Miss Mystery and Manners
by Laura Lasworth
Click on the image below, “Portrait of Flannery O'Connor,” to open Laura Lasworth’s exhibit in a resizable browser. In The Other Journal exhibit &l . . .
Wednesday :: July 1, 2009
At the Feet of Giants: An Interview with Gregory Wolfe, Part II
by Shannon Presler
Gregory Wolfe is editor and founder of Image, a quarterly journal that has featured prominent writers, sculptors, painters, and poets for over twenty years. The journal also hosts the Glen Workshop, fellowships for emerging writers, learning trips abroad, and numerous speaking engagements across the country. In Part I of . . .
Tuesday :: June 30, 2009
At the Feet of Giants: An Interview with Gregory Wolfe, Part I
by Shannon Presler
Gregory Wolfe is editor and founder of Image, a quarterly journal that has featured prominent writers, sculptors, painters, and poets for over twenty years. The journal also hosts the Glen Workshop, fellowships for emerging writers, learning trips abroad, and numerous speaking engagements across the country. In Part I of this interview Wolfe discusses beauty, and . . .
Thursday :: June 25, 2009
Supermarketing: Dreaming of a Better Tomorrow
by Industry of the Ordinary
Click on the image below to open Industry of the Ordinary’s exhibit in a resizable browser. Industry of the Ordinary and Performance Art Pe . . .
Wednesday :: June 24, 2009
The Novelist Sets to Work
by Allison Smythe
I will make him with red hair and a fiery tongue I will give him a country and a century a limp and strong hands I will take his wife but give him a daughter lovely enough to break his heart and will send him across the sea where he will die an old man and I will love him I will make her a timid creature who will feed the sq . . .
- From Vision to Touch: Returning Beauty to Lived Experience :: Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
- On Graced Learning: Can Schools be Beautiful? :: David I. Smith
- Fiddling with the Melody: Illuminating von Balthasar’s Symphony of Truth :: Anthony D. Baker
- Telling the Truth about Ourselves: Torture and Eucharist in the U.S. Popular Imagination :: William T. Cavanaugh
- My Body for You: Meditations on Sacrifice as a Theme in Contemporary Art :: Bruce Herman
- Charting Evangelical Futures in an Age of Empire: A Review of Evangelicals and Empire :: Halden Doerge
- To Know, to Utter, and to Become: Movements toward the Beautiful in the Theology of Charles Williams :: Kirsten Pinto Gfroerer
- Altars to Unknown Gods: A Christian Approach to Contemporary Art :: Daniel A. Siedell
- Sea Billows Rolling: A Review of Paul Mariani’s Deaths & Transfigurations :: Becky Crook
- What God Does Not Does and Does Not: A Review of Brent Laytham’s God Does Not :: Michael Gulker
- At the Feet of Giants: An Interview with Gregory Wolfe, Part II :: Shannon Presler
- At the Feet of Giants: An Interview with Gregory Wolfe, Part I :: Shannon Presler
- The Novelist Sets to Work :: Allison Smythe
- Partaking in the Holy Mysteries: An Interview with Scott Cairns, Part II :: Andrew Carlson
- Partaking in the Holy Mysteries: An Interview with Scott Cairns, Part I :: Andrew Carlson
- The Habit of Being: A Portrait of Miss Mystery and Manners :: Laura Lasworth
- Supermarketing: Dreaming of a Better Tomorrow :: Industry of the Ordinary
- Tangled Alphabets: An Aesthetic of Language :: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel; Review by Jen Grabarczyk
- The Harmony of Disparity: Glósóli, Esja Sunset, Thingvellir, and Other Landscapes of Iceland :: Paul LaJeunesse
- Of Icons, the Renaissance, and the Mysterious Disorientation of Disability: An Art Exhibit and Interview with Tim Lowly :: Tim Lowly; Interview by Heather Smith
- The Poetic Contemplation of Thomas Merton: An Exploration of the Relationship between Poetry, Contemplation, and Love :: Michelle Sanchez
- Redefining Beauty :: Laurie D. Russell
- Finding God on the St. Lucie :: Ben Lowe
- For the Beauty of Our Own Backyards :: Nancy Sleeth
- Lessons from My Daughter: Reflections on Life, Death, the Church, and Utilitarian Ethics :: Daniel J. Salinas
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"I Write Because I Cannot Remember At All."
jasmine says ::
Wow... I am awestruck by this remarkable post. I love the way you weaved your various stories in with the truth you found through literature... as if the words themselves find breath in your life, as they were intended to. I agree... your writing is . . .READ MORE >
The Thing About Stories
jennw2ns says ::
I agree that that's what it sounds like I'm saying. I don't think that's what I really believe in full. I DO believe that God's glory is creation's glory, and also that God delights to do good to us and that we are more important to Him than we . . .READ MORE >
The Knowledge of God and Evil
jstanley says ::
Hi Gilman, I just don't know how productive it is to make apologetic cases for God's benevolence or malevolence based on one's broad assessment of the relative amount of goodness or evil in the world. Further, to even raise the question of why . . .READ MORE >
The Thing About Stories
jstanley says ::
Hi Jenn, Would it be fair to summarize your article as saying something like "the story is about God (and God's glorification) not creation (and creation's glorification)? If so, I want to resist it. It sounds so 'orthodox' on one level, but . . .READ MORE >
"I Write Because I Cannot Remember At All."
thedude says ::
Ashley, this is beautiful... as someone who is white it was a gift to hear about the Cuban, and Cuban-American experience of having "a soul long stained by dislocation and silence." Such homesickness indeed may embody, as you say of your father, a . . .READ MORE >
Cake and Eat It
jennw2ns says ::
I'm glad it resonated. I wasn't sure any of the last three posts actually made any sense, particularly this one. Actually, I feel that way most of the time I write here . . . ;-)READ MORE >
Cake and Eat It
davegrosser says ::
OK, Jenn, *that* was great. So simple, so obvious, so never-said. Thank you. I found that very helpful.READ MORE >
The Knowledge of God and Evil
jennw2ns says ::
Ahh--thank you, Gilman, for saying in so many fewer words what it was going to take me at least five more posts to kind-of say! ;-) Yes. You are right. I think that's kind of what I was saying indirectly in my next (story) post: we assume we're the . . .READ MORE >
The Thing About Stories
gilman says ::
Thoughts: God as author -- a complex metaphor with many ways to turn. Not all authors appear explicitly in their stories, though every author is present as the "voice" of the story. Dickens, for example, is intensely present in all his storie . . .READ MORE >
The Knowledge of God and Evil
gilman says ::
Very thought-provoking piece. Good work. If we entertain the possibility that God is a cosmic sadist, an “evil being who makes some other beings as toys and dreams up ways to torment them,” then we will at once be stuck trying to explain the vexi . . .READ MORE >
Tangled Alphabets: An Aesthetic of Language
bibledude says ::
Great review Jen! The images and how you described them really touched my heart and mind today. Very inspiring... thank you.READ MORE >
Christian anarchy?
gilman says ::
I think this is an exciting subject. All Christianities, including (notably) American ones, have tended to merge Caesar and God, state and faith, into a giant idol with a glowing head, to steal Bob Dylan's great phrase, with an American flag standi . . .READ MORE >
Christian anarchy?
gilman says ::
I think this is an exciting subject. All Christianities, including (notably) American ones, have tended to merge Caesar and God, state and faith, into a giant idol with a glowing head, to steal Bob Dylan's great phrase, with an American flag standi . . .READ MORE >
The Lie Factory
Becque says ::
It is so hard to be part of this world when you know that some (much?) of what we do helps to drive a knife into the heart of what gives us life and sustains us. In my heart I know that God wants me to love the sinner/marketer/advertiser/capitalist, . . .READ MORE >
Christian anarchy?
jstanley says ::
Jasmine, I appreciate your thoughts and the invitation into your process. I would be very curious to hear your thoughts on a previous TOJ article entitled "Anarchist Imperitives and Fundamental Change" by Michael Van Dyke. It would be good fodder f . . .READ MORE >