For the last several weeks I have been trying to develop an ecological orientation through the narrative imagination. By ecological orientation, I mean “a new consciousness of the country” or “a new relation to it,” as the narrator of O Pioneers! describes in the exquisite passage below, which deserves a close reading: Alexandra drew her [...]
Archive for the ‘Creation and Creativity’ Category
July 22, 2010
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Developing an Ecological Orientation Through the Narrative Imagination
By Christopher Benson in Creation and Creativity, Literature, Theology (Christian Life)
July 12, 2010
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Why We Need the Dark
By Christopher Benson in Creation and CreativityJesus taught that “people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil” (John 3:19). As an anthropological and ethical statement, this is unequivocally true. But do we need physical darkness? In a National Geographic article entitled “Our Vanishing Night,” Verlyn Klinkenborg writes about our biological need for darkness. Unlike astronomers, most [...]
June 22, 2010
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Toy Story 3(?)
By Keith E. D. Buhler in Creation and CreativityAfter bawling my way through Pixar’s UP, I began to wonder if the Establishment could do wrong. Walt Disney is dead and with him, the best of American entertainment, for young or old. When the Disney Borg bought Pixar in 2006, my heart skipped a beat: more money, fine and good. But will the cold, [...]
June 1, 2010
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Russell Moore on the Uneasy Evangelical Conscience
By Andrew Walker in Creation and Creativity, Money and Business, PoliticsDr. Russell Moore of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has written the most lucid and judicious piece on the tragedy of the BP Oil Spill—anywhere. No secular media source has as accurately captured the importance of culture and creation as Moore has so able accomplished. Connecting the themes of creation care, limits, culture, and Christ, [...]
May 18, 2010
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Living to Work
By Jeremy Mann in Creation and Creativity, Theology (Christian Life)Dorothy Sayers’ presentation of work in her essay Why Work? is a helpful corrective for Christians who’ve lost sight of its theological purposes. Sustained conflict against the culture’s over-glorification of work has warped the church’s presentation of vocation. Instead of hearing what work should be, we hear what it is not. It is not as [...]
March 6, 2010
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Art is Eschatology
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Creation and CreativityWhether a Protestant aesthetics is possible remains, unfortunately, a question which Protestants must answer. In “Dante, Bunyan, and a Case for Protestant Aesthetics,” William Dyrness argues that not only do Protestants have an aesthetics, but have one that is shaped by the distinct contributions and emphases of the Reformation. It’s a rich essay, and I [...]
January 29, 2010
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The Courage to Create
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Creation and CreativityI’m giving a talk for Wheatstone Academy in a few weeks on the relationship between courage, theology, and the creation of culture. I am still putting together my thoughts on the talk and trying to identify the specific angle I want to take. My audience is Christian high-school students, but that has never limited me [...]
September 18, 2008
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Value-adds and American Ingenuity
By Tex in America, Creation and Creativity, Economics, Technology“Everyone has to focus on what exactly is their value-add…We are in the middle of a big technological change, and when you live in a society that is at the cutting edge of that change [like America], it is hard to predict. It’s easy to predict for someone living in India. In ten years we [...]
February 26, 2008
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The Sword and the Shaving Brush – Towards a Biblical Understanding of Fashion
By Anodos in "Meet the Readers", All Things Lovely, America, Creation and CreativityThe Sword and the Shaving Brush, Part I Towards a Christian understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part I It was a dress made out of wool—not finely spun wool, not the wool of your favorite sweater, but wool in natural clumps, as if freshly shaved from a shivering sheep. The whole skirt was shaped [...]
August 19, 2007
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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Month Two: Scheduling and Research
By Keith E. D. Buhler in Creation and Creativity, Hollywood, Life in generalIt had been about a month since Dizzy and I sat down and decided to write a screenplay. We had each done our own research and internal development and come up with a few ideas. We had written broad overviews in our heads and hashed them out with each other. But the time had come [...]
August 13, 2007
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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Month One: Brainstorming a story
By Keith E. D. Buhler in Creation and Creativity, Hollywood, Life in generalI confessed in my last post that I wanted to write a screenplay, and why. But I had a problem: Having friends in the film department at Biola, I knew I was not “a film person.” And frankly, I did not want to become one of the many people I knew where were always “working [...]
August 8, 2007
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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Preface: The ‘Why’
By Keith E. D. Buhler in Creation and Creativity, Hollywood, Life in generalI like writing. Fiction, non-fiction, lyrics and verse, whatever, it’s all good. Some of my heroes in history were writers, (though some were not, notably Jesus and Socrates) and I have found myself desirous and verbally able to begin an apprenticeship of admiration and imitation of their writings, and experimentation with my own. Movies are [...]