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Glimmers Of Artistic Hope““ I see faint glimmers of hope on the artistic front.“
1) Classical Music Listen to what Aaron Jay Kernis, composer of “Newly Drawn Sky, said to Seattle Symphony conductor Gerard Strauss about his aspirations. “I want to write music that is visceral, that is moving, and that is impeccably put together. I don’t want classical music to be a passive experience. I want it to have as much of an Read more

An encore presentation of a Dick Staub Interview with author Chris Seay whose book, The Gospel According to Tony Soprano explores the many reasons why this hit series has connected so deeply with American culture and exposes the mysteries of faith, family, life, and God that permeate the show. Published to coincide with the debut of the highly anticipated fourth season of the HBO series, it is written by Chris Seay, pastor of Ecclesia, a progressive Christian community in Houston, Texas. For the latest on the 2007 season finale read the interview with Soprano’s creator, David Chase.

An encore presentation of a Dick Staub Interview with author Chris Seay whose book, The Gospel According to Tony Soprano explores the many reasons why this hit series has connected so deeply with American culture and exposes the mysteries of faith, family, life, and God that permeate the show. Published to coincide with the debut of the highly anticipated fourth season of the HBO series, it is written by Chris Seay, pastor of Ecclesia, a progressive Christian community in Houston, Texas. For the latest on the 2007 season finale read the interview with Soprano’s creator, David Chase.

 

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On this podcast Dick Staub turns the reins of The Kindlings Muse over to his trusted friend Bill Hogg a man with that rare blend of wisdom and wit delivered in the tongue of one who speaks in the accent he swears we will hear in heaven. They are talking about Dick Staub’s newest book The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite,described by scholar/pastor NT Wright as “an urgent book for our times.” One recent reader encouraged the author with these words, “The new book, what can I say? I laughed. I cried. I felt one with the cosmos. I craved macaroni and cheese for three weeks. I did the Hokey Pokey and turned myself around until I couldn’t stand up! Enjoy!

 

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On this podcast Dick Staub turns the reins of The Kindlings Muse over to his trusted friend Bill Hogg a man with that rare blend of wisdom and wit delivered in the tongue of one who speaks in the accent he swears we will hear in heaven. They are talking about Dick Staub’s newest book The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite, described by scholar/pastor NT Wright as “an urgent book for our times.” One recent reader encouraged the author with these words, “The new book, what can I say? I laughed. I cried. I felt one with the cosmos. I craved macaroni and cheese for three weeks. I did the Hokey Pokey and turned myself around until I couldn’t stand up! Enjoy!

 

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Tonight Dick Staub turns the reins of The Kindlings Muse over to his trusted friend Bill Hogg a man with that rare blend of wisdom and wit delivered in the tongue of one who speaks in the accent he swears we will hear in heaven. They are talking about Dick Staub’s newest book “The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite,” described by scholar/pastor NT Wright as “an urgent book for our times.” One recent reader encouraged the author with these words, “The new book, what can I say? I laughed. I cried. I felt one with the cosmos. I craved macaroni and cheese for three weeks. I did the “Hokey Pokey” and turned myself around until I couldn’t stand up!” Enjoy!

 

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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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(Kindling Lou Carlozo is an entertainament writer for the Chicago Tribune. He offers his thoughts “The Sopranos.”) The beginning of the end has come for Tony Soprano: April 8 marks the first episode in the last season of HBO’s ultra-popular series “The Sopranos.” And when that final bullet casing falls to the floor, that final drop of murderous blood is shed, that final sip of Chianti passes over some sated hit man’s lips, Read more