In the iconic painting “The Death of Socrates” by Jacques Louis David, the philosopher sits on his bed, lecturing his followers in his final minutes on the immortality of the soul, his finger raised toward heaven to indicate the subject of his discussion.[1] At the suggestion of the poet André Chénier, David painted Socrates such […]
The Gospel Restoration of Fleeting Beauty
Embodying restoration, the Japanese art of Kintsugi reconnects broken pottery fragments with precious metal brushed in gold dust. Literally meaning “gold repair,” Kintsugi captures a philosophy of beautifying unavoidable imperfections, restoring purposeless cracks to an adorned state of beauty. Though many wrestle to define beauty [1], all humans have an innate inclination toward what we […]
Beating Heart on an Ultrasound
a beating heart like a synchronized swimmer doing butterfly flapping flapping flapping flapping like typing four letters on a keyboard click click click click I see inside her inside him and find the whole world in an ultrasound probe
Bellyached Beauty
Beauty.Beauty is believing.Beauty is bowing down.Beauty is the weary-hearted.Beauty is abandonment to His presence.Beauty is blood poured from the Cross to our hearts today.Beauty is breaking through the hard walls of our flesh to yield to Him.Beauty bellyaches to the Lord, longing for His warmth in a cold Earth.Beauty builds our spirits up in the […]
Formless and Void
God loves space and I, sitting on my couchfail to comprehend. Perhaps matter and grace strain to catch the imperceptible pace of divine thought ringing out in patter,‘In the beginning was the world, spatter and spume encompassed. And God was before it: a beginning without end.’ God loves space and made much of it.Is it distance, then, that […]
Dr. William Edgar on Art, Faith, and Beauty
Dr. William Edgar is Emeritus Professor of Apologetics at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. A renowned writer, apologist, and Harvard trained musicologist and pianist, Dr. Edgar’s books include Reasons of the Heart and A Supreme Love: The Music of Jazz and the Hope of the Gospel. Our conversation ranged a wide gamut of important issues, from […]