In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.
The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.
It is true that we need to make a onetime decision to follow Jesus. But a true onetime decision is followed by the everyday decision to Jesus.
The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and .
His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.
My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)
the gospel of St. Marx is just the old Judaeo-Christian mythology with the supernatural sanctions left out
As Christians it is not just for us to know what we believe, but why we believe it". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
My worldview aside from my Christian perspective is more aligned with Plato's thinking, conclusions, and philosophy
I don’t like it when Christianity and western cultures are used as propaganda to sway impoverished Muslims into becoming self-detonating radicals.
As a Christian, you are not the sum of your past. You are a brand-new person with a brand-new beginning.
Christian love is not a wave of emotion, but a deliberate conviction of the mind that issues in a biblical way of life. (p. 36)
We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.
If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
