Filmmaker Sidney Pollack was asked recently about the steady deterioration of the aesthetic and intelligence of American film. What he said is illuminating: “Are American films bad? A lot of them surely are, and so are a lot of everybody else’s, the way most anything produced is bad”breakfast cereals, music, most chairs, architecture, mail-order shirts. There probably hasn’t been a really beautiful rake since the Shakers stopped making farm implements!” In the visual arts, the abandonment of an artistic sensibility rooted in the good, the true and the beautiful led art critic Brian Sewell to say of the avant-garde gallery scene of the twentieth century’s last decade, “If this is art, I know no word that fits the work of Michelangelo and Titian.  In the breadth of application of Christian thought to all of life.”CS Lewis made observations about faith and art. What would CS Lewis do?

 

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Filmmaker Sidney Pollack was asked recently about the steady deterioration of the aesthetic and intelligence of American film. What he said is illuminating: “Are American films bad? A lot of them surely are, and so are a lot of everybody else’s, the way most anything produced is bad”breakfast cereals, music, most chairs, architecture, mail-order shirts. There probably hasn’t been a really beautiful rake since the Shakers stopped making farm implements!” In the visual arts, the abandonment of an artistic sensibility rooted in the good, the true and the beautiful led art critic Brian Sewell to say of the avant-garde gallery scene of the twentieth century’s last decade, “If this is art, I know no word that fits the work of Michelangelo and Titian. In the breadth of application of Christian thought to all of life. CS Lewis made observations about faith and art. What would CS Lewis do?

 

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Filmmaker Sidney Pollack was asked recently about the steady deterioration of the aesthetic and intelligence of American film. What he said is illuminating: “Are American films bad? A lot of them surely are, and so are a lot of everybody else’s, the way most anything produced is bad”breakfast cereals, music, most chairs, architecture, mail-order shirts. There probably hasn’t been a really beautiful rake since the Shakers stopped making farm implements!” In the visual arts, the abandonment of an artistic sensibility rooted in the good, the true and the beautiful led art critic Brian Sewell to say of the avant-garde gallery scene of the twentieth century’s last decade, “If this is art, I know no word that fits the work of Michelangelo and Titian.” In the breadth of application of Christian thought to all of life. CS Lewis made observations about faith and art. What would CS Lewis do?

 

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Congratulations! You’re tuned in to the premiere podcast of our newest show, The Kindlings Muse @ The CS Lewis Centre. In this segment we discuss Lewis’ unfrantic spirituality with Kim Gilnett of Seattle Pacific University (SPU) and a leading light in the CS Lewis world. Kim led the restoration project at The Kilns, CS Lewis home in Oxford. Here’s the quote voiced by British actor Anton Rodgers: “The English style of spirituality is a rhythm of worship, work, reading, and leisure. This is an un-frantic response to God who is, Read more

 

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Congratulations! You’re tuned in to the premiere podcast of our newest show, The Kindlings Muse @ The CS Lewis Centre. In this segment we discuss Lewis’ unfrantic spirituality with Kim Gilnett of Seattle Pacific University (SPU) and a leading light in the CS Lewis world. Kim led the restoration project at The Kilns, CS Lewis home in Oxford. Here’s the quote voiced by British actor Anton Rodgers: “The English style of spirituality is a rhythm of worship, work, reading, and leisure. This is an un-frantic response to God who is, Read more

 

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Congratulations you’re tuned in to the premiere podcast of our newest show, “The Kindlings Muse @ The CS Lewis Centre.” In this segment we discuss Lewis’ unfrantic spirituality with Kim Gilnett of Seattle Pacific University (SPU) and a leading light in the CS Lewis world. Kim led the restoration project at The Kilns, CS Lewis home in Oxford. Here’s the quote voiced by British actor Anton Rodgers: “The English style of spirituality is a rhythm of worship, work, reading, and leisure. This is an un-frantic response to God who is, as Lewis insisted, always a courteous Lord. Life-style is revealed by the use of time: what is given place and space; what is included and what, therefore, is excluded. What we see in Lewis is the steady place of his parish church; the quiet regularity of his Bible-reading and prayers; the natural large place for his main work of study and writing; the large blocks of time for leisurely conversations with special friends; and the importance of letter writing, especially with those who sought his help in the mater of Christian pilgrimage For all of his immense output of literary work, his life is marked by a spacious, un-frantic rhythm of worship, work, conversation, availability, and intimacy.” This show is produced in cooperation with SPU and Faith and Values Media.

 

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A week ago award winning cartoonist Johnny Hart died. Most of us know him from reading his popular cartoon strip–BC. B.C., with its prehistoric cavemen and dinosaurs was created in 1958, carried by over 1,300 newspapers and had an audience of 100 million. Hart won every major award in the cartoon industry: Read more

In this reprise of a Dick Staub interview taped just weeks after 911, Rabbi Harold Kushner offers advice on living a life that matters. Here is what Carlo, our audio director, said when he was editing this for rebroadcast: “It’s great! Really beautiful stuff!” Timeless teaching made especially poignant by the events that occurred just before this conversation.

 

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In this reprise of a Dick Staub interview taped just weeks after 911, Rabbi Harold Kushner offers advice on living a life that matters. Here is what Carlo, our audio director, said when he was editing this for rebroadcast: “It’s great! Really beautiful stuff!” Timeless teaching made especially poignant by the events that occurred just before this conversation.

 

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In this reprise of a Dick Staub interview taped just weeks after 911, Rabbi Harold Kushner offers advice on living a life that matters. Here is what Carlo, our audio director, said when he was editing this for rebroadcast: “It’s great! Really beautiful stuff!” Timeless teaching made especially poignant by the events that occurred just before this conversation.

 

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