Thoughtful Answers – $1.00 Correct Answers – $2.00 We’ve never been a “camping family” before, but this summer, with much too much enthusiasm and vigor, we became one. With our family, our dogs, our camper, and car in tow, we traveled through so many states…
Category: Essays
Already? Not Yet? Which Is It?
A few years ago my husband and I took a class at the Bethlehem Institute in Minneapolis, MN called, “The Kingdom of God.” Tom Steller, now Academic Dean of the Bethlehem College and Seminary was our teacher. One thing he stressed in that class was…
Why is Howard Finster’s Art Good?
“My brain is computerized direct from God to the end of my brush.”“I pastored churches 40 years.”“I can do 22 different trades.”“I been working on garden 20 years.”“I never had a wreck.”“I wrote thousands of articles.”“I farmed up to 1937.”“I had a program on radio…
What Should Christian Art Do?
On January 28, 2011 the BBC News Magazine published A Point of View article entitled “Why are museums so uninspiring?” by Alain de Botton. In his article, de Botton argues that museum art should do what religious art was meant to do – train us…