The Other Jesus

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Archive for December, 2007

Beauty, pt. 3

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Beauty, pt. 3

            In a time when American Christians seem to have one of two extreme reactions to the idea of church buildings—either they seem to care only about their church buildings, or they could care less about their building, meet in a shopping center or strip mall, or don’t even have a building where […]

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Beauty, pt. 2

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

So, last week I was climbing mesas in New Mexico and writing about the beauty of God’s creation. Today, I’m in Washington, DC, where I just got back from visiting the Phillips Collection, one of the great small art museums in the world. They’ve got Renoirs, Manets and Monets, Singer Sargents and Whistlers, Picassos, Braques, […]

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Beauty, pt. 1

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

I sat writing late this morning on the sunlit front porch of Ghost Cottage, the original ranch house from the 1890s here at Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico. I’m staying in the guest room of Ghost House for five days while doing a Celtic retreat with my Scottish friend Philip Newell.  And because the material […]

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