These Songs of Freedom
I had the privilege yesterday of attending a performance/lecture by Jeremy Begbie, hosted by Wycliffe College in the hallowed environs of Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Begbie […]
Tag Archives: theological aesthetics
An End-of-Term Confession
Dear blog: I’m sorry I’ve neglected you. This will change in the near future. However, in my defense, I have been avidly reading (and in some cases re-reading) some great books in […]
Going down the road
With lots of essays and articles (plus a whole lot of pre-baby house re-decorating!) on the go, I haven’t been so faithful in my blog upkeep. However, I did in […]
Theology and the creative impulse
The glib assertion that “God needs His creation as much His creation needs Him” is not a true analogy from the mind of the human creator. Nevertheless it is true […]
More reasons to learn German
As the fall approaches, it’s time for an extremely familiar ritual – course selection. Due to some scheduling, it looks like I am back to my original plan of taking […]
The Rainbow Connection
A bit of time off over the long weekend gave me the chance to finally dig a little deeper into Calvin Seerveld’s classic Rainbows for the Fallen World, which I […]
World without people
When I used to go on family trips as a kid, I never took photos with actual people in them. My formal purism was absolute: in the frame there were […]
Adventures in Mormon Country
On our recent trip to Syracuse Andrea and I (along with my mother-in-law and two small dogs) made a small detour to explore a piece of American religious history. Driving […]
Heart of the World
I’ve been reading selections from Balthasar’s poetic work “Heart of the World.” (Is it strange that every time I hear that title I think of the Kanye West/Katy Perry song […]
Off the beaten track
I sometimes find when you stumble across a suggestive image it keeps cropping up wherever you look. Here is an interesting twist on the train metaphor I suggested a few […]
