October 25, 2012
Well my book won’t be quite printed this way….. (Printing house engraving 2, Copy of Jost Amman, Found in David Amram’s The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (Philadelphia, 1909), p. 17.)
The book “A Bigger World Yet; Faith, Brotherhood and Same-Sex Needs” is back in print! You can get a hard copy of the book through an on demand printer, LuLu. Here’s the link:
This new printing of the 1st edition has 30 editing corrections, that I’m very excited about. Hopefully no boo-boos this time….
May 25, 2012
Here I am looking thoughtful in Salzburg Austria. So many beautiful places and saw an extraordinary amount of art in person, Rubens, Schiele, Bruegel, Rembrandt and Dürer all were delightful to see and spend time with.
Yes, I’ve been a bit out of touch here as of late. I have been traveling with a wonderful group of 16 students and another teacher in Germany and Austria for the past three weeks. Man-oh-man I never do so much walking as I do on these trips. Stairs, many stairs….
The other teacher, my dear friend Rick, was VERY faithful to keep a blog the whole time. Here it is if you want to see all the lovely places we visited:
http://gaja2012.wordpress.com/
For me one of the best parts of the trip was an over 10 mile walk I did solo along the Danube walking from Krems to the town we were staying in, Spitz. It took me a while but I got to go through some wonderful small towns and vineyards and had a very long and good talk with God. Lets just say there were some things I needed to let go of and leave in the Danube while I was there. This is a photo of the lovely town of Weiskirchen that I walked through. I grabbed a soda and some nosh in this fine little town.
My main note:
• People take A LOT of pictures now a days… I really don’t think digital cameras have aided ones viewing abilities. If anything, I think they really detract from the experience. We have developed such a visual surfing culture that individuals don’t know how to edit. I have I watched tourists simply click away on their camera at a pretty site or in a museum, and never once stop and really look at anything with any time and consideration. Taking a picture does not have an intrinsic cost, and I think if it did, individuals would be more thoughtful with their gluttonous camera use. Their is almost a consumer mentality as toursits voraciously click away. If anyone ever invents a device that jams digital cameras, I’d be interested. Stop and look people, draw, contemplate, really take in what you are seeing.
Other notes:
• It’s O.K. to stare at folks in Germany and Austria, they do it more often than we do here. That was a little disconcerting at first.
• Bread, cheese, franks and schnitzel. Get use to them, you’re going to see a lot of them.
• We Americans are LOUD people.
December 10, 2011
Here's the cover to their August edition, which is good indeed I'm sure, but you want to pick up the Nov/Dec 2011 edition- "Summoning Adam"
I recommend that you pick up a copy of PRISM magazine’s Nov/Dec issue entitled: “Summoning Adam.” Lots of good articles in there…
The issue specifically speaks of men of faith who are on the front line of putting their hands and feet to the hard work of embodying what they believe. From helping men get out of prostitution, to working with men in prison, to working to shut down porn shops the men in the articles in this issue are not men of words, but men of action and true conviction. Here’s a link to PRISM’s website:
http://www.evangelicalsforsocialaction.org/page.aspx?pid=310
In the spirit of full self disclosure, I’m in one of the articles called “The Measure of a Man” where they interviewed 5 of us asking specifically what is God’s call on men’s hearts and how can the church help do that. Here is a link to the article:
http://issuu.com/prismmagazine/docs/pages_from_nov-dec_2011_prism_measure_of_a_man
In one of the articles the director of Emmaus Ministries in Chicago told an analogy I really liked: A man dies and goes and to heaven and saint Peter greets him. Saint Peter asks the man to roll up his sleeves so he can see his arms. The man asks “Why?” To which St. Peter responds “I want to see your scars.” When the man rolls up his sleeves and sheepishly says “I don’t have any.” Peter simply replies, “Was there nothing on earth worth fighting for?”
Blessings- Tim
March 18, 2010
Me and the Guggenheim- kind of disappointing to be honest. They didn't have a lot up, and were between shows.
I was able to spend a couple of days quickly running around New York city the beginning of this week. I had a wonderful time catching up with friends and seeing as much art as I could cram into a very short period of time. Man oh man there is so much to see. Needless to say I need to get back soon. I feel like I simply scratched the surface of the metropolis’ offerings.
All the public art and buildings were a delight as well as the constant flow of humanity. People are a very good thing you know
Tall buildings indeed.
The only thing I found very ironic about New York city was the proliferation of Starbucks. With New York and all of its originality I was intrigued to find out what delightful and innovative coffee shops they had; instead I found the Target of expresso was simply EVERYWHERE. A friend informed me that since I was on the upper east and west sides I was in areas where mom and pop shops don’t have enough money to start up because the area is expensive. Seems I need to explore more. Feel free to make recommendations.
New York is a town definitely worth checking out just make sure you are flush with cash. Dinner can easily run you $20, and that’s for a glass of wine and soup. The city was quite the contrast to my recent trip to Bisbee Arizona; indeed.
Met up with a student of mine Felix who is studying this semester in NY. We had a good time seeing as much as we could of the Met in one day. That building is three blocks long!
