Easily recognized as a small, brown-gray bird with a short tail and stubby beak, the sparrow is quite humble. Abundant particularly in urban and degraded areas these creatures exist pleasantly, but are not seen as exceptional or attractive birds. Yet, when I found...
Two people can read the same text and take away two very different impressions. In this subjectivity, there is enough ambiguity for a non-reader to bluff her way through conversations with grace and, almost, heroism.
This is a digital piece that I did for a senior art class. It is inspired by two of Andy Warhol's pieces (Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's Soup), and by Halloween candy. A friend of mine brought extra Halloween candy to class one day to share, and I ended up picking a...
Stories about faith in people’s lives are commonly dismissed as irrelevant or insignificant. But there are times when media skepticism suppresses great, albeit inconvenient, truths.
As soon as I could read, I loved magazines. Even when I was a kid, I had a sense—which I couldn’t have put into words then—of the vastness of the world, its complexity and many-sidedness.
I wanted to create a painting that confronts the lack of faith and doubt that I constantly encounter in my spiritual journey, hoping to communicate to the viewer that we all share a common bond of struggling with answers to the great questions of life. For the...
Although it is not intentionally a ministry to theatre artists, “there are people whose faith is alive today who might not have been if Pacific Theatre hadn’t existed.” It is “a place where your art and your faith are accepted. That can be restorative.
Think tanks are like laboratories. We take ideas that are being promoted in society and test them. We also take problems for which there seem to be few good solutions available and work to develop new ideas.
Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania. A weekend getaway with friends. Two of my aptmates are seen here in this digital photograph (snapt Spring '08). We're on top of a mountain—the guy on the ground is a fashion photographer—he's shooting a model, reclined on a bench. The...
In the face of an ailing global food supply, buying locally and consuming consciously allow us to conserve the world’s resources. The “Slow” movements’ emphases on local culture are the result, not of xenophobia, but of a desire born of a cosmopolitan ideal to preserve the rich history, tradition, and diversity inherent in human cultures.
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