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Dec 5, 2008

Week of November 30, 2008

Comment makes a great gift for your children and grandchildren! If you order gift subscriptions by December 15th, we will send the recipients a fun card to grace the Christmas tree. Give the gift of worldview and vocation training today. Alternatively, consider giving...

Nostalgia (purple rain)

Nov 28, 2008

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Nostalgia (purple rain)

I am forever interested in how line, texture, colour and even pattern can be inherently symbolic. Currently, I am attempting to visually illustrate emotions by linking these perceptions of colour, line, texture and pattern to different states of being. Nostalgia...

Journey: Siena Duomo

Nov 28, 2008

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Journey: Siena Duomo

Oil on canvas 70" x 52" 2007These cavernous structures were built for crowds of people and throngs of religious activity, but now hold only shadows of those presences. In the three years I spent living and working in Italy, I encountered these medieval places as...

Nov 28, 2008

Week of November 23, 2008

As an editorial staff, we share in the excitement here at Cardus over the appearance of a sister publication to Comment, Cardus Policy in Public, affectionately known as 'see-pip.' Congratulations to publisher Ray Pennings and editor Russ Kuykendall on a...

Nov 28, 2008

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Conceiving exhibitions

Three days before Barack Obama became the first African-American to be elected as U.S. President, I was doing more than watching the news from sidelines and judging politics from a distance. That night, even as one of the artists sang his songs and the puppet show began (yes, there was a puppet show!), the twenty-or-so people in the room were transfixed, at least for a moment, transported to perhaps a more humane sense of polity. I thought I saw that transport in their eyes.

Tree (of Life)

Nov 21, 2008

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Tree (of Life)

Acrylic wash, watersoluble wax pastels, charcoal, conte on paper April 2008Its branches are gnarled and twisted and they hang heavy on the trunk. Yet the trees' thin shoots always reach straight up to the sky in hopeful expectation.That is like me and you. The tree...

Caution

Nov 21, 2008

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Caution

This picture represents a special series I have done on children. Children are fascinating subjects to observe because their behavior resembles something in between adult people and nature’s wildlife. They are at once unpredictable and instinctual, yet also human...

Nov 21, 2008

Week of November 16, 2008

Living at the Crossroads is one of the most important conferences of the next year. Featuring keynotes by ten internationally-known leaders including Comment authors Mike Goheen and Calvin Seerveld, Comment publisher Ray Pennings, and Comment editor Gideon Strauss,...

Nov 21, 2008

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The Gospel and parenthood: Reflections of a young mother

I can understand why my generation is beset with insecurities about “growing up” and may take longer to make lifelong commitments such as marriage and parenting. Many of us who grew up in a typical North American household with a smaller nuclear family and working parents are sheltered from the practical responsibilities of managing a home: finances, chores, and caring for younger siblings. As my generation “grows up” and enters parenthood many may find, as I did, that we are underdeveloped in the personal maturity, stamina, and skills needed to withstand the challenges of parenthood.