I want to make it perfectly clear that although I believe in the continuity of existence, I do not hold to the simplistic theory that upon death a vaporous ghost containing our soul floats out of our dead body and goes to some cosmic waiting room whi...
When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this lack disrupted my conscious life. I lived not without God, nor wish his absence, but in a mild abeyance of belief, drifting through the days on a tid...
Just as some of Jesus' first-century followers could not credit the presence of the risen Christ, so our own blindness, habit, and fear form a kind of constant fog that keeps us from seeing, and thereby believing in, the forms that grace takes in our...
Today, what's normal is being redefined: from vaginal birth to surgical birth; from 'My water broke,' to 'Let's break your water;' from 'It's time' to 'It's time for the induction.' As medical anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd writes, 'in the early t...
Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. As you rise up from the puddle of broken eggs and tomato juice, you are ready to sho...
When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.
I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.
Art is not meant to change the world.
Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
I recommend the art of slow reading.
Land really is the best art.
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
I was truly ignorant about art before the film.
It appears to be monumental only because it's art.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
