This past Sunday night, as I was pulling into my driveway after a fantastic post-worship fellowship time with some friends, I had a sudden urge.  An urge to build something.  Something real and beautiful.  Something with bricks and mortar.  Something that would be hard to build, that would involve a certain degree of physical suffering, [...]

I am still plowing through Herman Bavinck’s Essays on Religion, Science, and Society, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.  If you enjoy theology and philosophy, this book is for you.  While learning about the Covenanters and the more general foundations for their thinking on a Christian’s role in the world around him, I somehow [...]

A few friends contributed to this list of good resources on Christian aesthetics.

Augustine On The Trinity
Mind of The Maker by Dorothy Sayers
Art in Action: Toward a Christian Aesthetic by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Works and Worlds of Art by Nicholas Wolterstorff
On Fairy Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Defendant by G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton on Dickens
Peter Leithart’s blog posts on Art
Credenda/Agenda on [...]

This week I began reading Douglas Jones and Douglas Wilson’s Angels In The Architecture for a small group study.  Previously we had read Plowing In Hope: Towards a Christian Theology of Culture by Bruce Hegeman, which, while I did not agree with everything the author postulated, I found to be very helpful and thought provoking.  [...]