From the monthly archives: December 2011

A Christmas Carol for Carol: What the Ghosts Showed Me

By On December 22, 2011 · 4 Comments

One of the highlights of my Christmas season this year was a play performed by our small youth group at church entitled “A Christmas Carol: Disco Version.” In one scene Scrooge fails to recognize the ghost of his deceased partner Marley and gets excited when he misunderstands and thinks it is Bob Marley. The ghost [...]

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What if Christmas comes and I’m just not ready for it?

By On December 12, 2011 · 11 Comments

Each day that we live some things happen and other things don’t. Often the things you expected to happen don’t and things you never dreamed of do. This past weekend was a mixture of things I expected to happen and things I never dreamed of. Most of the things that happened were not [...]

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Angels in art – The Bible vs cultural tradition

By On December 8, 2011 · 10 Comments

“Angel” by Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1887

People have suggested that angels would be a natural subject for my artwork, but I was hesitant because in the Bible, when angels are described it seems they look like men – large scary men who have to tell people not to be [...]

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