Confessions of a Quirky Christian Artist

If I make a list of movies from my life time that have changed what the artform can do, it would be as follows: Star Wars, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, LOTR, and Avatar. It's a truly stunning piece of work. As a world designer I really, REALLY loved the attention to detail and consistency applied through all the designs. I love that they put as much love and attention into the plants as the animals. I was disappointed that they never attempted to explain the floating Hallelujah Mountains since everything else had a scientific approach, but the visuals outweighed that weakness. The story was Dances with Wolves + Ferngully which would not have been a bad thing if not for the incredibly one-dimensional bad guys. Yes, Hollywood, we know you don't like big corporations or the military. But couldn't you just every once in a while give those characters some sort humanity? But speaking of humanity, Avatar features non-cartoon non-humans that are completely emotionally convinci...

Over at Parchment and Pen. It's been going on a couple weeks now. It touches on a lot of subjects that are of interest to me. (If you read this blob they are probably of interest to you as well. It's basically a conservative Christin prof. from Dallas Theological Seminary complaining about why his students don't get a fair shake in the secular universities. But it's the comments that are really interesting. I've had my reading program just speak the text to me while I work. I can't imagine how anyone would have the time to read the near 500 comments posted now! http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/11/frustrations-from-the-front-the-myth-of-theological-liberalism/

A while back I spent a few lunch breaks cruising the atheist forums at Reddit. I post my Examiner articles there since they are the only people that will talk to me about them. These conversations did not take place on my threads, just random ones I happened to comment on. Anyway, this is just a historical brain dump for me. Feel free to read through it if you think I’m so staggeringly brilliant that this stuff is interesting to you. ___________________________________ JF: [concerning a criticism of Christianity about how splintered the religion is.] Well the lack of a single identifying thread that binds all Christians together from all times is hardly a problem unless some sort of institutional stamp of approval is sought after. The same can be said of any political party or movement, and any school of philosophy. These entities are webs of multiple ideas, not single strands. And none of that speaks to the existence or properties of a proposed Deity. I disagree...