Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The laughter and longings of C S Lewis

Well-documented article about the role that yearning for joy, and finding it in books, drove C S Lewis into the arms of God.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

'Teach them to yearn'

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de St Exupery

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Story

This is an excellent article that describes how important 'story' is, and what I am trying to do with my comic fiction...

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

(some more) awe

For me, the experience of sequencing the human genome, and uncovering this most remarkable of all texts, was both a stunning scientific achievement and an occasion of worship. (Francis Collins, Head of
the Human Genome Project)

Awe

If this universe is but a flower on the meadows of God's life, what must not God himself be!
F B Meyer