old-school blog 1: on art, creativity, worship and the emerging church

14Sep08

Look what I dug up. I wrote this post almost 4 years ago in early January 2005 while about to enter my final semester at Northwestern State U in Natchitoches, LA. Note the reference to the emerging church and the post-evangelical marriage of art and music, as well as the Protestant maverick tone [...]

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Tags: aesthetics, Cathoicism, Catholicism, college, emergent, emerging church, Natchitoches, post-denominational, post-evangelical, Protestantism, theology of art

quoting the Restorationists, et al.

05Feb08

“Every man was born with a Pope in his belly.”
–Barton Warren Stone on Martin Luther in The Christian Messenger
“From the best authorities it appears that the Church of Christ was one in communion and fellowship as Christians, till the year of our Lord, 381.”
–T.S. in The Christian Messenger, Vol. 1, April 25, 1827.
“You can and [...]

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Tags: barton stone, calvinism, Catholicism, church of christ, martin luther, post-restorationist

Helenistic graffiti 1.0–Horace the Restorationist

14Jan08

This is the first installment of a handful of works from a new genre of expressionism that I believe to be fine art—Facebook app graffiti from the ever-artistic Helen. Today’s installment explores early Stone-Campbell Movement vitriol toward hierarchically structured Catholicism and top down “popery.” Such vitriol was spewed in the context of a [...]

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Tags: Catholicism, post-restorationist, stone-campbell movement