by Kevin Bauder | Jan 24, 2017 | America, Art and Literature, Culture, Social Issues
The Washington Post reports that as part of his budget-cutting measures, President Trump wants to pull the plug on the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also wants to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. As...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 20, 2017 | Art and Literature, Christianity, Culture, Library, Library Tips, Poetry
Cosmophagy is a book of nature poems by David Oestreich. Here’s the blurb on the jacket: If you sit up at night thinking about leaves realizing “they’re each alone / and out on a limb,” or wait for “each day to be sliced in half”...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 12, 2017 | Art and Literature, J. R. R. Tolkien, Library Tips
Joseph Pearce offers his picks of the best books on J. R. R. Tolkien at The Imaginative Conservative.
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 9, 2017 | Art and Literature, Culture, J. R. R. Tolkien, T. S. Eliot
“Don’t lecture, inspire.” So says John Stonestreet in “Tolkien, Eliot, and the Power of Story.” Christian musician and novelist Andrew Peterson says, “If you want someone to hear the truth, you should tell them the truth. But if you want...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 6, 2017 | Anthropology, Apologetics, Argumentation and Debate, Art and Literature, Christianity, Culture, Library, Library Tips, Resources, Theology
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by Kevin Bauder | Dec 25, 2016 | Affections, Alumni, Art and Literature, Christianity, Christology, Devotion, Holidays, Our Alumni, Theology, Worship
You can see the image and read a good discussion of the painting by David De Bruyn at Churches Without Chests.