At the end of the term...

It is the end of the Spring term, and I have been thinking about my blogging life, such as it is. I created this blog to add some extra content and/or questions and/or play to the content of the Theological Mosaic class. This term I also started to blog on a different site and realize that I need to give a little more 'face' time to that endeavor.

All this to say, I think that I am going to retire this blog and consolidate my two class blogs at the 'Artistic Impulse' blog site. So, if you want to keep reading/following my random abstract thoughts about life, art and theology, please visit my other two blogs. As for the Theological Mosaic, it will be missed, but all good things much come to an end eventually... or find a life elsewhere, as the case may be.


Here are the links. Enjoy!

The Artistic Impulse (short thoughts on what I am reading, watching, hearing and experiencing in my theology and the arts life... oh and occasional thoughts and announcements for my classes...)

Evangelical Crossroads (A group blog with the authors of Routes and Radishes. In my posts I will focus on my continued exploration of and search for a Christian aesthetic...)

Oh, and I should add one last sarcastic video for the road.... hope you like the video, it is meant to make you laugh, not cry...

A Few Thoughts on Rob Bell

I thought I would send a few links for recent thoughts on Rob Bell's new book. I appreciate Peterson's willingness to listen both critically and respectfully. And I appreciate Jeff Cook's thoughtful interaction with Lewis and Bell (although I don't think that Lewis is a Universalist...). Enjoy!

Eugene Peterson on Rob Bell

C. S. Lewis and Rob Bell

A Little Inspiration

A little inspiration for you from Henri Nouwen's Theological Ideas in Education:


Most students...feel that they must first have something to say before they can put it down on paper. For them writing is little more than recording a preexistent thought. But...writing is a process in which we discover what lives in us. The writing itself reveals what is alive.

In another place he writes:

The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know....Writing is like giving away the few loaves and fishes one has, in trust that they will multiply in the giving. Once we dare to "give away" on paper the few thoughts that come to us, we start discovering how much is hidden underneath...and gradually come in touch with our own riches.

So, as you write, I pray that you will "come in touch with" your "own riches."