Just a restoration.
Read MoreRestoration and Redemption /
The answer came... I was the one who was being restored!
Read MoreGear and Prayer /
The quality of the tone, the wood of the guitar and the overall intimate presence of the music is a sign of the voice and nearness of God.
Read MoreMy Interview with SpokenBride.com /
But when it’s found, I think the most startling thing is that it has the ability to affect a radical response from human beings. I mean, beauty can make a man lay down his entire life and reveal to him a personal, unrepeatable mission that he willingly gives himself over to at a profound cost. Beauty makes you want to continually be in its presence, and it impels you to act.
Read MoreCreating an Executioner's Block in Two Days /
Yes, that's what I said. An executioner's block. All in a day's work I suppose. Probably really creeping out the neighbors.
Read MoreThe Church in Need of Art /
“Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savour life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God…” wrote Pope John Paul II in his 1999 Letter to Artists.
Read MoreThe Church Needs Artists /
“The Church has need especially of those who can do this [communicate the message] on the literary and figurative level, using the endless possibilities of images and their symbolic force. Christ Himself made extensive use of images in His preaching, fully in keeping with His willingness to become, in the Incarnation, the icon of the unseen God.” ∼ Letter of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Artists
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