Who loves the warthog? Who threw up a fence To guard that frame, that face? I found him near “Exotic Birds,” Electrifying, base — Prodigal son, whose well-stocked pen Was like his Father’s house again. The Zoo encircled both of us. paths curved as his horns had curved: Well, there are stranger Animals, By stranger
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“[God] destroys both the blameless and the wicked. When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges — if it is not he, who then is it?” Job 9: 22-24 (English Standard Version) Our
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After an aimless time searching for an ambiguous truth, I behold the idea incarnate. It takes the shape my mind always dreamed– a fantasy realized and released– one pale lily among rough reeds. Without reaching out to its beauty, I fall back into tangibility, leave all untouched in silence, with nothing to show for sight.
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We are all — every last one of us — obsessed with giving good impressions. We like to be thought of as smart, attractive, funny, virtuous, and strong; we want everyone to believe that we have it “all together.” The staff of The Ichthus is certainly no exception. It is our secret hope that you
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“When an overly institutionalized form of Christianity is, or ever has been, battered into pieces and opened to the air of the world around it, that faith-form has both itself spread and also enabled the spread of the young upstart that afflicted it”1 claims Phyllis Tickle in The Great Emergence. Believing that we are right
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But it is true, they fear it more than death, beauty is feared more than death, more than they fear death. – William Carlos Williams Theology seeks the particulars of how God works in the world and who He is, how the Infinite interacts with we the limited. Aesthetics pursues a strikingly similar aim: how
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