December 2009

Thought for The Day: Yancey on "Negative Capability"

I'm reading a brilliant Philip Yancey article from FIRST THINGS Magazine entitled "What Art Can and Can't Do".  (Thanks to Spencer Capier for sending me the link.)

These lines in particular struck me:

Keats said that literature sometimes demands of us Negative Capability:  the ability to accept multiplicity, mystery and doubt without reaching out for the illusory comforts of certainty and fact.  Faith, too, demands a kind of Negative Capability, and that does not always sit well with many of the folk who distribute Christian art and many of the folk who consume it.

Divine Distortion (New CT Column)

 

My newest Christianity Today column is up at their site, as well as at my WRESTLING WITH ANGELS BLOG (the place where I park any articles I've written that go online).  It features Adam and Eve, my duo partner Spencer Capier, an Ebay Fraud Artist who relieved me of my money a few years ago, and some ideas about God's character and grace.  Check it out and let me know what you think!

Peace,
CA

A Highly Rational Review

I don't know the blogger who goes by the name of Flicka Spumoni (a moniker which makes me happy and hungry simultaenously), but she recently posted a detailed, nuanced (and may I unbiasedly say "highly insightful") review of my disc:  CHRISTMAS: AN IRRATIONAL SEASON.  You can read it HERE.

Thanks, Flicka, you deliciously-named blogger!  Merry Christmas! 

CA

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