Walker: You may be interested in this: BFA Thesis Exhibition On Display at UNO Art Gallery The Spring 2005 BFA Thesis Exhibition is currently on display at the UNO Art Gallery through May 6.The show features the work of UNO students David Beckman, Phillip Faulkner, Jessica Levy, Hannah Marchio, Matthew Orand, Frances Rauth and Gregory Rishoi. The installations of Orand and Rishoi will be set up at Southroads Mall and Mulhall’s Nursery. The dates and times will be announced.The UNO Art Gallery is located on the first floor of the Weber Fine Arts Building. Admission is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from noon to 4 p.m., Thursday from noon to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. Excluding reserved stalls, UNO parking lots are free and open to visitors on Sunday afternoons.For more information, contact Deborah-Eve Lombard at x4-2796.
Thanks for the note. Yeah, things have been crazy busy with her sisters visiting. They're good kids, but I and my schedule don't adjust too well, unfortunately...they're flying back tonight and the rest of the weekend will be busy catching up with schoolwork! Ali is ten and quite loud, and that makes getting stuff done pretty difficult. Reminds me of why we're not really going to try for kids until at least getting through our current phase of studies. Obviously it CAN be done, but...yeah. I know you're pulled in more directions than I am at home, and God bless you, Jeff, for your hard work as a father and husband!
Now I'll link stuff to take up even more of your time, hehehe. This is regards to the recent discussions on Vagrant about stuff "djork" is bringing up. Thought you might find these interesting.
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/cgrowth/mkt.htm I think this is a quite interesting article by an evangelical who examines the shifts in how the gospel is presented by the "market-driven church" movement and the philosophy behind it. While his treatment of psychology is a bit simplistic (especially for someone who studied it), and doesn't really touch on the fact that many psychological ideas are legitimately medical and scientific and CAN be integrated into a biblical, Christian approach without bending or warping the Gospel, I think he smartly touches on some of the issues written of by leading figures in the "market-driven church" movement and those who influenced them. http://www.gnpcb.org/product/1581345097 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1581345097/104-3213434-2671964?v=glance Book -- The Market-Driven Church by Udo Middelmann He looks to be a covenant theologian (works for the Francis Schaeffer foundation, so that says something right there!) evangelical concerned with the movement, its underlying philosophies and the direction it's moving. Interesting review of the above book: http://www.rutherford.org/oldspeak/blog/articles/religion/oldspeak-marketdriven2.asp And here's a piece written (excerpt from the book?) by Mr. Middelmann, who interestingly enough is married to a daughter (?) of Francis Schaeffer. In general, a very thoughtful, fairly thorough writing that, while simplifying and misrepresenting the Reformation and Roman Catholicism (which is to be expected of someone subscribing heavily to Covenant Theology, to be fair -- it just requires a grain of salt) makes some excellent points on the mentality and thought of this modern movement. Makes me curious what Francis Schaeffer's son, Frank, would have to say about all this. He's actually a prolific writer and Orthodox Christian. Anyway, the article is worth a skim (which is about all I can invest in it for now). http://www.christiancounterculture.com/40615/islamization.html
maybe more to say from me later? this has been a trying week at work and I'm not sure how busy the afternoon will be.
Once in a while I turn into a news junkie, watching CNN (and occasionally scanning others) to soak in every detail about certain news events. Right now is one of those times...last night while doing housework I kept the television on, knowing that at any time the Vatican might announce the passing of Pope John Paul II. It's not even that I feel I must be present and watching at the immediate moment an announcement is made. In this case, I'm hooked on the commentary, analysis, interviews, and so on. I've not watched too many other channels, to be honest, but CNN has been focused on the papal situation for about 95% of its broadcast time, and it's been a very respectful tribute. They've interviewed people like Sister Helen Pre-Jean (misspelled, I'm sure -- the sister who wrote Dead Man Walking), a couple cardinals, and so on. No Tim LaHaye yet, though I'm sure he's itching to get on a camera somewhere and talk about how if this pope isn't the Anti-Christ, then the next one surely will be. That's probably why I'm avoiding Fox News Channel, as I generally do. Anyway, the tone has been one of honor and thoughtfulness. High-ranking Catholic officials (cardinals, etc.) are reminiscing and telling their favorite stories of spending time with him, or things he's said. One of the news anchors (a recent favorite of mine, actually), Soledad O'Brien (I think she's Hispanic and Irish?) was talking to one of them about the process of selecting a new Pope, and he told her that she can take a part in the process by praying for him as he goes soon to the Vatican and meets with the other cardinals, and she said she would. They're visiting various parishes across the world and showing the faithful praying, again, very reverent coverage. They're talking about his history, his work helping to defeat Communism (interviewed Nancy Reagan) and reaching out to Jews and others -- apparently his best friend from childhood is Jewish, and the man talked at length about their relationship over the years. Anchors are talking about the deep, rich tradition of RC and repeatedly praising his example. Other interviews end up with the Gospel being shared, people talking about how this IS a perfect end to his life, his example in partaking in the suffering of Christ. Another interesting point brought up is that young people love him, and he's appealed to them quite a bit...and they got into the WHY of that, and one of his close associates shared that his message over the years, in different words, over and over, has been that young people should settle for nothing less than moral and spiritual greatness. Not a ton on his mysticism, but that's less understandable and even harder to share, I suppose. They also talk about how he's not "conservative" or "liberal" politically, and doesn't get his opinions from polls...and people are saying that agree with him and RC or not, they greatly respect him and his example. In talking about the strength of his convictions and ability to, well, pontificate on what he knew to be right or wrong, one of the interviewed basically said something like, "Well, what did people think they were going to see? Someone easily swayed by shifting opinions?" -- something along those lines, and immediately I thought of the Gospel in which Christ says of John the Baptizer, ""What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? a reed shaken in the wind?"
Anyway, I think that in light of recent scandals, crazy assertions by pop fundagelicals, etc., this treatment of the Pope and his legacy is simply astounding.
One person remarked that perhaps he's miraculously hanging on until Divine Mercy Sunday ( http://www.divinemercysunday.com/mercy_sunday.htm )...and that he has himself been very tied in to that feast day...interesting stuff.
And since I posted this earlier, they're showing evangelicals like Franklin Graham and T.D. Jakes praising the pontif.
