May 18, 2009
My office is filled with art. Some of that art is executed by professionals who have dedicated their lives to their craft, some of it was gluesticked by 4-year-olds between snack and the next trip to the playground. In truth I’d never try to compare the two (a bit like C.S. Lewis or Foster to my meager ramblings), but they share a deep power to touch and to teach, and they are both dear to me. As I look around I m surrounded by grass seed tigers, finger painted faces, a framed print by Brian Andreas that regularly resets my priorities, photos that remind me who I am, and a glitter collage that I’m still trying to fully comprehend.
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April 21, 2009
Bill Mallonee of Athens, Georgia, is #65 in Paste Magazine’s “100 Greatest Living Songwriter’s” Poll, and we’re honored to have him and the rest of the band join us for Matter ‘09: A Creative Theology Event.
“The poetry and intelligence of Bill Mallonee’s songs rivals Dylan’s, and the spirituality and inspiration of them is like the timeless hymns. He’s one of my favorite all time artists.” - Buddy Miller (No Depression Magazine’s Artist of the Decade)
“The intelligence and intensity of Mallonee’s writing has elicited comparisons to Dylan from his loyal underground admirers. Given the consistency and quality of Mallonee’s work over eight albums, he is arguably the first writer since John Prine to make the comparison plausible.” – New York Press
“Dylan-tinged vocal and introspective lyrics that spin out big-picture stories imbued with chilling small details.” – Billboard
“Bill Mallonee… [has] remained fascinated with the shadowy emotional toils and struggles inherent in the American experience, compelling, insightful, [he] continues to probe through Americana rock and roll proving that sometimes the only story worth telling is that of the journey.” – Rolling Stone
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April 6, 2009
Shechem Ministries’ “Matter ’09: A Creative Theology Event” is now accepting submissions of papers and artwork for the conference September 17-19, 2009, at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Selected papers and artwork will be presented at the conference and will be published in the anthology of the conference, Matter, published by Shechem Press with a forward written by Peter Rollins.
All abstracts and digital image samples are due by noon CST on July 1, 2009, with completed artwork and papers due by August 31, 2009 at noon CST. Abstracts (250-500 words), panel proposals, and inquiries should be submitted via email to info@mattercon.com.
The theme for the conference is “Christian Relationships”: our relationship with God as discussed in Hebrews 12, our relationship with the Church as discussed in Hebrews 13, and our relationship with the world as discussed in Romans 12. (more…)
