"The comedy of the gospel is the surprise grace of God that wrests humanity from sin and death and gives it unexpected and outlandish hope and purpose."
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Drawing or Color, Part III: The Neoclassicists vs. The Romantics
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
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
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
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.
