Category Archives: Arts and Culture

The Comfort of Keeping the Supernatural Unreal

I’m re-reading Perelandra, where I’ve just run across an interesting insight into C.S. Lewis’s way of thinking. Turns out there’s a long excerpt available online, which includes the part that interested me. “Eldila” (plural of “eldil”) are something like angels in this fictional trilogy. The narrator is walking to visit his friend Ransom, who in …

May 6, 2011 – 7:33 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture | Comments (1)

God and Gaia in Academia

Exploding not one but two myths: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Quodlibeta/~3/u-yEaoWQKKI/god-and-gaia-in-academia.html Posted from WordPress for Android

April 16, 2011 – 4:37 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture | Comments Off

Art That Doesn’t Tell Us What To Think Of It?

Joe Carter linked to this video at First Thoughts: It’s fascinating how the students react to this. One of them said, It’s your own interpretation. It’s not telling you what to think of it, it’s what you think of it. She ended that with a rather embarrassed-looking smile. I can’t help wondering what it mean. …

March 15, 2011 – 11:36 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Postmodernism/ Relativism | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

The World’s A Ship On Its Passage Out, and the Pulpit Is Its Prow

From Moby Dick by Melville, Chapter 8, describing the chapel at New Bedford: Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture. Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship’s bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of …

February 5, 2011 – 3:06 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, The Faith | Comments (1)

New in 2010: No Apologies Allowed

This entry is part 10 of 14 in the series New in 2010

I’m featuring some selected new Christian blogs from 2010, proceeding in random order with precedence given to ones that were submitted earlier. From the sublime to the … marvelous. Yesterday’s “New in 2010″ post featured one kind of artist, and today’s features another. It’s No Apologies Allowed, “Weekly apologetics cartoons and quotes for the faithful, …

January 19, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, The Faith | Comments Off

New in 2010: Words of Wisdom

This entry is part 9 of 14 in the series New in 2010

I’m featuring some selected new Christian blogs from 2010, proceeding in random order with precedence given to ones that were submitted earlier. The one thing I’m not sure of regarding the Words of Wisdom blog is its title. It’s not that there’s anything lacking in wisdom there. Rather it is that the artist who runs …

January 18, 2011 – 10:41 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, The Faith | Comments (1)

Only Natural

Did you know there were two tin woodmen in Oz? Probably not–the second one appears for the first time in this short snippet of a story. Only Natural “He thought it was a curse. I saw it differently. You probably remember his story–how he fell in love with a certain girl, who happened to be …

December 18, 2010 – 7:26 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, New Atheism | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

The Worldview Church

I’d like to introduce you to the Worldview Church, an outstanding source for thinking about Christianity in relation to the world we live in. David Naugle’s “Christianity and Culture: Kingdom Living is a good place to start: From the beginning of the Church until the present, Christians of every stripe have wrestled with a most …

November 4, 2010 – 7:15 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Thinking Christianly | Tagged | Comments Off