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Aug 8, 2008 Uncategorized

Fire up the barbeque, bring your friends to the table, and make culture!

Andy Crouch’s Culture Making: Embracing our call to engage intentionally with our world, through the creation of cultural goods.

Aug 8, 2008 Uncategorized

Q&A with Josh Good, “Program Manager, ICF International”

I help the people who help people on the margins of society, especially in cities.

Aug 8, 2008 Uncategorized

Self Portrait with Dead Sparrow

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...

Aug 1, 2008 Uncategorized

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

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.

Aug 1, 2008 Uncategorized

Pop and Chips

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...

Jul 25, 2008 Uncategorized

John Lennon, Josh Hamilton, and the postmodern F word

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.

Jul 25, 2008 Uncategorized

Q&A with John Wilson, “Editor, “Books & Culture

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.

Jul 25, 2008 Uncategorized

Fear

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...

Jul 18, 2008 Uncategorized

Vancouver’s Pacific Theatre: Good art with Christian motivation but no “agenda”

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.

Jul 18, 2008 Uncategorized

Q&A with Ray Pennings, Vice-President Research, Work Research Foundation

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.

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Fire up the barbeque, bring your friends to the table, and make culture!

Q&A with Josh Good, “Program Manager, ICF International”

Self Portrait with Dead Sparrow

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

Pop and Chips

John Lennon, Josh Hamilton, and the postmodern F word

Q&A with John Wilson, “Editor, “Books & Culture

Fear

Vancouver’s Pacific Theatre: Good art with Christian motivation but no “agenda”

Q&A with Ray Pennings, Vice-President Research, Work Research Foundation

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