Doubts – June 28, 2018

Doubt and religious belief often seem to be in conflict.  Many people have acquired a belief that one can not be of firm faith if one doubts, or if there are doubts then one’s religious beliefs are at risk. I propose that these beliefs are not merely false they are harmful.  The absence of doubt should be a flag that alerts us to a stagnate faith, or even a weak faith.  Consider science for only…

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Julia Rothman – Beautifully Illustrated Books on Nature, Food, Farm

  Three Highly recommended books of illustration by Julia Rothman [amazon_link asins=’1612122310,1612123392,1603429816,1612128521′ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’ryusho0a-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’4c7eb25a-7a3f-11e8-a5cd-7fa97956fd63′] See the world in a whole new way! Acclaimed illustrator Julia Rothman combines art and science in this exciting and educational guide to the structure, function, and personality of the natural world. Explore the anatomy of a jellyfish, the inside of a volcano, monarch butterfly migration, how sunsets work, and much more. Rothman’s whimsical illustrations are paired with interactive…

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Kids in Cages

These are some of the art I have created in response to the recent decision of the Trump administration policy of separating children from their parents as they have attempted to cross the border.  In some cases, the number is quite unknown, these immigrants are seeking asylum. Because the legal entry points have been shut down in many places they have, in desperation sought entry elsewhere along the boarder.  As they have tried to enter they…

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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Rilke’s timeless letters about poetry, sensitive observation, and the complicated workings of the human heart. Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke…

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