November 2009
12 posts
The Transpire Project
Thanks to Paul Soupiset, I was turned on to the artwork of Scott Erickson yesterday. Scott is the artist-in-residence at Ecclesia Church in Houston. You should absolutely check out his work at The Transpire Project. I love that Ecclesia is supporting this kind of work from within the church.
VOID | Mothers of God
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Ivy Trick-or-Treating at Baylor
[via: the moore family]
Lila at two months
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“If I do not connect with the existing Christianity around me, then I must take...”
– @adamdmoore
Favorite Films
[Update: added “Medicine for Melancholy” on 11/28]
I’m going to put together a Top Ten list for my favorite films of the decade (while acknowledging that I haven’t seen many movies from this year). Here are the movies I’ve rated 5 stars on Netflix. I will choose my Top Ten out of these 42 films.
Adaptation
After the Wedding
Almost Famous
Amen
Atonement
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An act of faith
“Watching her impossibly steady hand, the deft maneuvering of the quill (each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet requires its own separate technique) and the inexorable progress of the text across a column and down a page yields a palpable sense of ancient ritual that slows your breathing, and you can’t help seeing that she is communing deeply with the text as she copies it. The...
Charlotte Gainsbourg - “IRM”
“What does God do all day long? God gives birth. From all eternity God lies on a...”
– Meister Eckhart
Listening
Amadou & Mariam - “Sabali”
From Karen Armstrong’s new book, The Case for God:
“From almost the very beginning, men and women have repeatedly engaged in strenuous and committed religious activity. They evolved mythologies, rituals and ethical disciplines that brought them intimations of holiness that seemed in some indescribable way to enhance and fulfil their humanity. They were not religious simply because...
TransFORM: Missional Community Formation from TransFORM on Vimeo.