The medium is the message
Today is Marshall McLuhan’s birthday, so in his honour here is an article from the National Post on the way his Catholicism undergirded his media theory. I can picture McLuhan […]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Advice for “Christian artists”
Here are some interesting thoughts from Jacques Maritain on how to be (or not to be) a “Christian artist.” I put that in quotation marks because it’s worth asking whether […]
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
It’s a line from a Leonard Cohen song about the apocalyptic future, but quite frankly it also describes this largely unrelated bunch of links (not to mention my headspace at […]
Moderation in the heart of excess
One of the great things about Toronto in the summer is the proliferation of festivals. Right now the city has been taken over by the Fringe Festival, an explosion of […]
Video Friday
It’s more than a little melodramatic, but this first video is fairly interesting in terms of how we think about artistic ‘inspiration,’ creativity and imagination, especially in light of the […]
Art, faith, J.J. Abrams
For those of you with a little time to spare, an article I wrote called “Finding Our Way: Art, Faith and Mission” has been published in the latest issue of […]
