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Ascension by Kristin Fuller

For this year's art gallery at Mo*Con, we have a few artists making their debut showings. One of them is photography Kristin Fuller. Here's a brief description of her powerful project, Ascension. It's a moving piece that spoke to me.


Ascension
A photo essay by Kristin Elizabeth Fuller

In my most recent project, "Ascension", I have been exploring the spirituality of the desert. Desert Spirituality is rooted in the idea that in the desert places of our lives; in the barrenness and...

Alias, Rimbaldi, and Redemption

"That's the word he used. Prophecy. Does that sound good or bad?" –Sydney

So many great science fiction shows have an underlying mythology behind them. X-Files and their alien mythos. Fringe and "The Pattern". Lost and their "what the hell is going on?" mythos. Alias had its own mythos, the Rimbaldi mythology, which often threatened to overwhelm the precarious balance of the themes of the show. Many of Sydney Bristow's (Jennifer Garner) missions centered around the search for and recover...

Alias and Compartmentalized Spirituality

Before J.J. Abrams become a pop culture phenomenon (Lost, Cloverfield, Star Trek) he helmed the series Alias. The premise was simple: newly engaged, brilliant, beautiful college student, Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner), believes she works for a division of the CIA known as SD-6. Working alongside her estranged father, Jack Bristow (Victor Garber) and under her pseudo-father figure Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin), they foil the plots of evil intelligence agencies. Well, turns out that SD-6 is ...

Our Church Stinks

So we've been consigned to the basement. It's not as bad as it sounds. The Crossing meets in the basement of Redeemer Presbyterian (a church we were familiar with since it hosts many First Friday events as it shares space with the Harrison Center for the Arts) on Sunday nights. Each week, round tables, lit with candles, are set up around the periphery of rows of chairs. Nothing glamorous, no power points, barely a sound system, it's small enough that it's difficult to hide from one anoth...

Between Brett and Brooks... (King Maker Reviews)

Right now, King Maker is only available over in the U.K. and in Australia, but thanks to Jim Mcleod, I know what it looks like on the book shelves. And in the hands of rabid fans.



For those especially anxious to get their hands on a copy of King Maker, here's a place that offers free worldwide shipping. Here are some early reviews:

-Science Fiction and Fantasy (a review I'm particularly proud of though I swear I'm not going to live and die by the reviews)

-Fantasy Literature
-gillpolack
-Adam...

Homicide: Life on the Streets – A Review

Premiering on January 31st, 1993, right after the Super Bowl, Homicide: Life on the Streets was one of the best written, best acted, grittiest, smartest dramas to hit the television airwaves. It used cinema vérité techniques (handheld cameras, jump cuts), had convoluted continuing storylines, and paved the way for shows like The Shield and The Wire (the only shows truly in the conversation of "best cop show" ever).

"I believe in justice. I believe in life." –Pembleton

The show was brought t...

Just when we thought we were out …

aka, Looks like we found a church home(s)

The thought about diving into church at all, much less church shopping, hasn't been something we looked forward to. There is a high amount of church burnout among me and my friends. A reluctance to invest again, be it being burned by previous experiences or just being disappointed. And this is with the full realization that there is no perfect church out there. I was reading on Scot McKnight's blog about what he'd look for in a church home to see ...

Ten Years Ago ...

Sally and I got married.

Honestly, I'm as shocked as anyone that we made it. Yet through God's provision, and through a continuing testimony of love and forgiveness, here we are.

I know that we also wouldn't have made it without the love and support of our friends and family. And for that, we thank you.

[And it's also Maunday Thursday]

Acts of Bloggery

Still thinking through what it means to use our gifts (in my case writing, for example) to be a blessing to others. Every so often I feel this overwhelming need to justify my blog. It's probably guilt because I assume I should be doing more writerly things on here. So here's another reset on my blog.

Now, don't get me wrong, blogging is sooooooo 2003, especially in the age of FaceBook and Twitter. There's a discipline to writing and it's probably the only disciplined thing I do in my life....

Suffering and the What, Why and Who Questions

Guest Blog by Sally Broaddus*

So I've listened to 7 sermons in the past 3 days, (that is not listing the two I heard on Sunday either – so 9 sermons in the past 4 days, but 7 on a certain topic). It's been a bit much to hear, but actually exactly what I needed to hear and talked about exactly where I am in my life. So it was a good thing, however so very not normal for me to do.

Last month I finally got plugged into a prayer group… now hold up, I personally don't get all fired up about prayer g...