Tag: art

  • Why We Need To Be Talking About the AI Bubble

    Why We Need To Be Talking About the AI Bubble

    The thing about the AI discourse is that people aren’t taking seriously the direction this is heading — we’re not planning for the future we’re building.

  • Do we have to listen to Led Zeppelin?

    Do we have to listen to Led Zeppelin?

    What popular music is essential? What are we required to listen to? And do such ideas about art even have a place?

  • The two enemies of the creative life

    The two enemies of the creative life

    The first enemy is obvious. But that second one…we’re tricked into thinking that it is necessary. What makes us good.

  • Create – the forgotten language of the season

    Create – the forgotten language of the season

    One year my Mom tried to get us to make our Christmas gifts for one another. There is some serious backstory to all of this, but suffice it to say, she thought she was offering us an antidote to what ailed us. My Mom is an artist. So everyone groaned and thought she had a…

  • The Art of Love

    The Art of Love

    In overturning the tables in the temple and reimagining Sabbath law, Jesus invites us into a new relationship to our work. Not as adherents and citizens, but as artists and co-creators. Jesus invites us to be artists collaborating in a global masterpiece Lent 3B  | John 2:13-22 This church may have a lot of doors…

  • The Dumpster Fire

    The Dumpster Fire

    THE DUMPSTER FIRE I’m losing track of the horrors The assassination The truck Fireworks in Mexico. So much pain and I’m forgetting it every day there’s more like Professor X my mind is overloaded with voices, everyone’s thoughts and the villains want me so incapacitated I can’t resist. Won’t. Overwhelmed and afraid, the only turn…

  • For the Great Creator

    For the Great Creator

    Stephen, Righteous Abel, and the blessing of creativity a Homily for St. Stephen’s Day (observed)  |  Text: Matthew  23:34-39 And yet GOD never said he didn’t appreciate Cain’s gift! GOD just loves being surprised. GOD loves to see us stretch ourselves and try new things and use all of our gifts and currencies to express our…

  • What I love about the Atlanta airport

    What I love about the Atlanta airport

    If you’ve never been, you’re missing out. Traveling between terminals, you go underground. Rather than taking the train, walk, or better, stroll. It is like an underground museum. Right now, there is an Atlanta history project that is pretty sweet. Even better is a collection of urban photography between terminals D and C.