Neither audience nor artist should approach art as self-expression. To do so
robs art of its universal applicability. If James Joyce had written strictly to
see himself on paper, A Portrait of the
Just a few months after graduating from a Christian college, I found an article
that encapsulated the curiousness of the community I was leaving. Called “One
Island Under God
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Standing outside the Manassas Battlefield visitor’s center I began to photograph
the open and lush countryside surrounding the battlefield monuments and the
roads used for auto tours. It’s a new camera—
“Modern discourse is not really comfortable with the word ‘soul,’ and in my
opinion the loss of the word has been disabling, not only to religion, but to
literature and political thought and
My mother and I walk into an art museum. Already, this sounds like the set-up
for a joke, and really it is. You could call it a small miracle that my mother
was