Christian living is beautiful living.
Be forewarned: After looking more closely through this book, I’ve discovered that there are many pictures of nude paintings and, unfortunately, even some nude photographs. I wish I’d known this before purchasing it. ‘Cause it was an expensive book.
Aside from the soft porn, this work is an impressive endeavor. Besides being [...]
Space, the final frontier. Space, the first three dimensions. Space, elbow room for America’s school house rockers. Space is something to fill up. It’s empty, but it needs something in it. The idea of an empty space makes us feel lonely. It’s sort of frightening. Even thinking about the [...]
After the Muslims conquered Constantinople shortly before Columbus sailed the ocean-blue (1453), they forbad the ringing of church bells – probably so that the bells couldn’t be used as a signal for an uprising. And thus, the jewel of Christendom came under dhimmitude. Replacing the sounds of church bells throughout the entire region [...]
American Reformed folks are aesthetic relativists. Although I don’t know enough about the philosophy of aesthetics to share my thoughts on this clearly or authoritatively, this has been one of my main contentions over the years. I think we can see this in several places. Look at our buildings. Perhaps one might suggest that plainness [...]
Beauty cannot survive a hyper-pragmatic view of reality. It is choked out. And where beauty dies, goodness departs. Any “truth” that stands stalwart amid such ruins has no glory. And one ought not desire it.