Archive for August, 2007
Information or Encounter?
“Creativity occurs in an act of intense encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.” Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Have you ever stared at an abstract painting, and wondered, “What in the world was this artist thinking?”
The artist, Mark Tobey, filled his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that [...]
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Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Programmers. Engineers. That’s what our parents told us to be when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future now belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. So says Daniel Pink, author of [...]
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About 4 o’clock the other morning, I woke up and heard simple phrase:
“A flower is still a flower, whether it’s petals are open or closed.”
The beauty of a metaphor like this one is that it can take on a different meaning for every person who hears it. If you want, take a minute, close [...]
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Here’s a quiz: Can you correctly match the three examples to their corresponding font in the list below?
1. The quick cat jumped over the lazy dog.
2. The quick cat jumped over the lazy dog.
3. The quick cat jumped over the lazy dog.
a. Arial
b. Times New Roman
c. Courier
Because you’re likely sitting at a computer right now, you probably have at least a [...]
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Jesus Was No Superman
Ernie Fitzpatrick, over at Beyond Theism, has written a great, five-part series entitled, “Jesus Was a Man,” exploring the humanity of Jesus. This topic is of particular importance to me, as I explore the idea that we are both human and divine as well.
Before I get into hot water, let me say that I [...]
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