“God must be a derivative of good somewhere way back. It’s the magic of the world: How does a pine tree know how to be a pine tree, how does the maple learn to be a maple? It’s what’s awe-inspiring. It’s the greatest magic there is. It’s what makes everything be alive.” – Quoted in [...]
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Jean Arthur on God
Posted in Film, Religion on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Harold & Elizabeth Bibber in Japan
Posted in Art, Bells, Incense, Japan, Postcards, Religion, Tea on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I purchased a group of postcards and discovered that the person who bought them first, Elizabeth Bibber, had written notes on the backs, describing each scene. Elizabeth Bibber was the wife of Harold Bibber, a 1920 MIT graduate and an engineer with General Electric; he was assigned to the Tokyo office for four years beginning [...]
What Mother Said
Posted in Art, Religion on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From “What Mother Said,” a hand-lettered, hand-bound book of stories and prints as seen in Communication Arts, Typography Annual 2, January/February 2012. The artist, Emil Wilson, notes, “What Mother Said is a collection of pieces that explore both typography and printmaking. The phrases I use are courtesy of my mother, who’d often say them around [...]
A Wealthy Lunatic
Posted in Religion on December 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“In my largest parish, the senior warden was a wealthy lunatic just from the asylum, the Sunday-school superintendent would have no rector meddling with his work, two unbaptized Churchmen claimed absolute control of the music, the leading soprano was a Roman Catholic, and Satan sat at the organ. One year in such a parish was [...]
Positive Christianity
Posted in Religion on October 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The party stands on the basis of Positive Christianity, and Positive Christianity is National Socialism… National Socialism is the doing of God’s will… God’s will reveals itself in German blood… Dr. Zöllner and Count Galen have tried to make clear to me that Christianity consists in faith in Christ as the Son of God. That [...]
Salute
Posted in Art, Religion, War on September 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
N.C. Wyeth from the cover of Red Cross magazine, July 1918
Rapture Art
Posted in Art, Religion on May 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In 1992, I received this postcard from the truly amazing DeAnn Zwight, who knew my taste for the unusual. The artwork is by Charles Anderson, entitled “The Coming Rapture,” and published by Bible Believers Evangelical Association of Sherman, Texas. More than 5,000,000 prints and postcards of this art have been published since 1974. It’s even [...]
More Wyeth
Posted in Art, Religion on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An N.C. Wyeth illustration from a piece on children in the Bible, published in Good Housekeeping in November of 1929.
Olympic National Forest
Posted in Religion, Trees on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“For like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be.” — Isaiah 65:22
Amen
Posted in Religion on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“I’ve been near God, but I’ve also been near the devil. God won.” – The second miner to reach the surface, Mario Sepúlveda
