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The latest article on the Everything Conference website is an interesting piece on the Theatre of the Absurd, with a tenative embrace of the art-form. Definitely worth a read.
Some of the discussion reminds me of Francis Schaeffer’s approach to apologetics: to talk with people to help them see the logical conclusions of their own worldview. And the difficulty of genuinely living consistently with what they believe. Taking a similar approach via the arts is an interesting idea. Has the potential to be a truly incarnational and compassionate apologetic…
Tags: apologetics, culture, Everything Conference
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March 13th, 2010
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A couple of useful mp3 finds…
I discovered over the weekend that L’Abri have now put an amazing number of their lectures on-line. Think of a topic and there is probably at least on talk that covers it. Well, maybe. The L’Abri Ideas Library is at www.labri-ideas-library.org.
Also, Redemeer in New York have put out a podcast of Tim Keller sermons. They seem to be adding files faster than anyone could possibly listen to them…
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February 22nd, 2010
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I mentioned newfrontiers up-coming Everything conference a few posts ago. They’ve now added some interesting articles to the conference website. Also, some great images in the gallery. Looking forward to this…
Tags: church, culture, Everything
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February 4th, 2010
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Things I discovered just before Christmas…
I’d somehow missed the International Arts Movement’s store. There are a lot of interesting mp3s from their previous conferences, including an interesting interview between James Romaine and Betty Spackman and two great talks by Jeremy Begbie.
Begbie is such a vibrant and creative thinker — a great example of what Christian thinking should be like: fresh, robust and alive. I found his talks at IAM are exhilarating. Here a few snippets to encourage you to listen:
* Artists of the new world specialise in excess. In the resurrection God does not just restore the old order, but a new order, characterised by excess.
* Artists of the new world exhibit the justice of the new world, but this goes beyond balancing wrong with right; it transforms the oppressor with an excess of forgiveness.
* Artists of the new world delight in non-order — ‘defiant jazz’. Like the resurrection and pentecost, the new world shows order and unpredictability. This unpredictability is something different to disorder — it’s playfulness, non-order.
Things wikipedia taught me No. 3045: Francis Schaeffer wrote to encourage Steve Taylor after his first album I Want to Be a Clone. It increasing seems that 99% of the people who influenced me over the years have some connection with L’Abri…
On a different tack, I was really pleased to discover that Newfrontiers are planning a conference on culture, work, etc. next March — Everything. It’s great to see them starting a conversation in this area…
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December 28th, 2009
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Over on look both ways, Richard Hanson has a great post on his experiences as a photographer at the time of the Rwanda genocide — DR Congo :: Kibumba revisited. I meant to point this out when he first posted it, but never got round to it. Now he has re-posted I get another chance.
What I find really interesting is the lesson he learnt from the experience. After having a hard time taking photos surrouded by this tragedy, he talked with someone who
impressed on me was the point that the only reason I was there was to get the picture back, the story told. There was no point me driving some Landrover around, or trying to help sick people – those weren’t my skills. What I could do was tell the story, and that might make a difference if it made people think and respond.
Sometimes we have to remember what our gifts are and work with those, rather than trying to cover everything, no matter how urgent it might seem.
Have a look at the other posts in his Behind the Page series. There are some great images…
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October 31st, 2009
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A couple of interesting links:
I was pleased to see Marilynne Robinson win the Orange prize. The Guardian have a couple of interviews with her — one more literary and one more, well, Calvanist — and an editorial.
Also — I normally get annoyed with blogs that begin “I haven’t read this book, but I wanted to chime in nonetheless”. However, Kyle Strobel at Theology Forum brings an interesting observation to the Wright/Piper discussion of Justification. Turns out that Tom Wright has some support from Jonathan Edwards…
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June 10th, 2009
A random walk over culture, art, christianity, etc. with occasional photographs...