spirituality

Today's Artuality day! Our theme this month is movies. How have movies or a movie inspired you artistically or spiritually?

This is the fourth and final part of my interview with Dr. Glenn Kreider of Dallas Theological Seminary. In this conversation, we talk about the importance of the physical redemption of the earth to our theology of art.

This video runs under four minutes.

Introducing a new monthly festival on art and life!

Art has been a shaping force in my life. Through art, I encounter God, am challenged to think in new ways, and see new perspectives. Art influences my spirituality, my art, and my life.

It happened one night, it was a dark and stormy night, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. No matter how it begins, everyone has a story to live. This series looks at the story of the Christian life. Part Nine talks about The Road Back, or intigrating The Reward into your everyday life.

This video runs about 4 minutes.

It happened one night, it was a dark and stormy night, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. No matter how it begins, everyone has a story to live. This series looks at the story of the Christian life. Part Eight looks at the Reward earned after the Ordeal--when you've finally found what you've been looking for.

(You know a girl's gotta quote U2.)

Part Eight runs five and a half minutes.

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Also, I'll be starting a new monthly carnival (sorry, Mich) on my blog. I'll have details up next week!

I just finished Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis and needed to come get out some of these thoughts swirling around in my head. I started talking about it on Christianne's blog because I see parallels in the book to so many ares of the Christian life. It's one of those books that you could pick up a dozen times and get something different out of it because you're in a different place in your life every time.

Some of the authors of the Bible used a writing technique called chiasm. It's where the outside statements work in parallel to each other, coming together and pointing to the center statement as the crux of it all. Like a cross. A1, B1, C1, D, C2, B2, A2.

Or sometimes the middle will be two statements reflecting each other (a D1 or D2).

I like writing techniques.

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