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  • Drawing or Color, Part III: The Neoclassicists vs. The Romantics

    November 8, 2019

    Ingres considered bright colors “anti-historic” and warned his students against them. “Better to fall into gray,” he said, “than into bright colors.” Color, as Delacroix saw it, was essential to painting. “Remember,” he urged in his journal, “the enemy of all painting is gray.”

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  • Drawing or Color, Part II: The Florentines versus the Venetians

    October 22, 2019

    They called Michelangelo "the divine one." Titian was "the prince of painters." But these two contemporaries were on the opposite side of one of art's great debates.

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  • “The School for Life”: N.F.S. Grundtvig

    October 16, 2019

    It is only to a heart and mind and body that is freely expressed in its own time and place that something as universal and cross-cultural as Christianity can come and find a home.

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  • The World as a Kolam: Reflections on Augustine and The Supper of the Lamb

    October 9, 2019

    As mankind elevates the world’s beauty through his senses, so his soul is elevated. He is transformed from a mere consumer of the world, to its attentive lover. And in this transformation he becomes what he was always meant to be: made in the image of God, participating in the Divine work of preserving and sustaining creation, fully inhabiting the created world, in which he lives and moves and has his being.

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  • On Loneliness, Locke, and the Loss of Religion

    October 1, 2019

    Wonder from the World Wide Web

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  • Seeing and Knowing

    September 23, 2019

    I saw things from the top of the mountain. Unforgettable things. I saw them and they were now part of me.

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  • QFT: The World is Stranger Than You Thought

    September 10, 2019

    Beginning with studies of electromagnetism, scientists have come to understand reality in such a way that there really is no such thing as tiny bits of matter that exist independently and that cannot be divided. Atomism (in any traditional sense) is dead. Reality is not what we thought it was.

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  • Tolkien’s Other Stories (Book Recommendation)

    September 6, 2019

    If you have enjoyed The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, or maybe even the Silmarillion, it might be time to explore some of these or other of Tolkien’s lesser-known stories.

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  • On Thompson Pond

    August 22, 2019

    Whenever I went for a walk around the pond I would stop at the bridge for a while and look at this tree ... Each time that I returned it would show me something new. Each time I would bring my memory of the place with me, and each time I would leave with my vision slightly refined.

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  • The Sky, the Plough, and the Plaza

    August 18, 2019

    Articles by Garrison Keillor and Naomi Schaefer Riley, an interview with photographer Chris Arnade, and a video by Mike Olbinski that is sure to amaze.

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  • Nov 08, 2019 Drawing or Color, Part III: The Neoclassicists vs. The Romantics
  • Oct 22, 2019 Drawing or Color, Part II: The Florentines versus the Venetians
  • Oct 16, 2019 “The School for Life”: N.F.S. Grundtvig
  • Oct 09, 2019 The World as a Kolam: Reflections on Augustine and The Supper of the Lamb
  • Oct 01, 2019 On Loneliness, Locke, and the Loss of Religion
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