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May 9, 2008 Uncategorized

Q&A with Eric Miller, “Professor of History, Geneva College, Pennsylvania”

Creative communicating to students, in some fashion, is at the heart of my calling.

May 9, 2008 Uncategorized

Lost & Found

I began collecting abandoned photographs in 1978 in Calgary, Alberta when I came across a box of old portrait photographs at a garage sale. Over many years and numerous geographical moves, the collection increased. A reoccurring thought I had was that these unknown...

May 2, 2008 Uncategorized

Bring me my arrows of desire: cities shaped by love

Think about what makes a city good.
“Our greatest cities,” writes Philip Bess, “are products of love. Cities should be shaped and driven by the dream of a world made new.”

May 2, 2008 Uncategorized

Q&A with Barbara Hampton, “Writing Coach, College of Wooster, Ohio”

I help students at the College of Wooster make their papers better. I also teach classes that help students think and write more carefully.

May 2, 2008 Uncategorized

Group of 1000

Last summer, I saw this man in Huntsville, Ontario painting a huge replica of a Tom Thomson painting. He was stopping people as they went by to get them to put a dab of paint on the canvas. He said he was trying to get 1000 people to contribute and sign their name to...

Apr 25, 2008 Uncategorized

Public arts in the city: with reference to Chicago

The future of the world is an urban one, according to the Bible. What follows are ten theses that argue for the artistic significance of cities.

Apr 25, 2008 Uncategorized

The tension of brokenness

Naming two tempting alternatives to Christian faithfulness.

Apr 25, 2008 Uncategorized

Q&A with Calvin Seerveld, “Senior Fellow Emeritus in Philosophical Aesthetics, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto”

Somebody told me that if there was an activity you enjoyed so much you could do it without being aware of time passing, that would be good work for a person to do during his or her lifetime, especially if you could earn a living that way. So I became a teacher.

Apr 25, 2008 Uncategorized

The Beauty of the Rainbow Nation

Bongi, the subject of "The Beauty of the Rainbow Nation", hated white people. Born in 1968, she grew up in apartheid South Africa—a country dominated by the white Afrikaans people. Bongi was part of the marginalized communities of that day from the proud Zulu tribe....

Apr 18, 2008 Uncategorized

Loss, fragility, and (maybe) hope

Snow Angels provides an artful and honest picture of how we hope and lose hope for redemption when we cannot find anything to hang on to but ourselves.

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Q&A with Eric Miller, “Professor of History, Geneva College, Pennsylvania”

Lost & Found

Bring me my arrows of desire: cities shaped by love

Q&A with Barbara Hampton, “Writing Coach, College of Wooster, Ohio”

Group of 1000

Public arts in the city: with reference to Chicago

The tension of brokenness

Q&A with Calvin Seerveld, “Senior Fellow Emeritus in Philosophical Aesthetics, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto”

The Beauty of the Rainbow Nation

Loss, fragility, and (maybe) hope

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