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Comment on one donut hole fuller… by B Harms

B Harms — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:52:37 +0000

I feel like my life is a doughnut hole fuller after reading this. Thanks for sharing. So good.

Comment on who would you give a second chance to? by Karen Hammons

Karen Hammons — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:29:45 +0000

GREAT post!! SO grateful to be POTSC with you!!! You ROCK!!

Comment on mr. & mrs. harmon by Sarah Lewis

Sarah Lewis — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:12:32 +0000

OMG TREVOR!!!! once again, AMAZING wedding pics

Comment on -art is meant to disturb- by Tessa Linn

Tessa Linn — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:58:11 +0000

I believe that the Creator of the Earth and all that is intended us to be creative…..

Comment on -art is meant to disturb- by Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:26:58 +0000

I agree Kyle. I love to create anything and everything that challenges to normal process. That is the beauty of creativity, it always pushes us to something new.

Comment on -art is meant to disturb- by Kyle Reed

Kyle Reed — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:08:00 +0000

I feel like I was created to create everything…or maybe just create connections and ideas.

But sometimes I want to create anything and everything I can.

Comment on is church life stifling your creativity? by Tessa Linn

Tessa Linn — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:46:24 +0000

We have been involved with the arts involved in the church for long time…..we have some friends in Europe that run art houses and train Christians how to use art in the church and Christian art in the culture go check out our friend Garold Anderson on myfacebook page….I think you would really like him…..let me know what you think….I believe there is a good place for art in the church…Tessa

Comment on is church life stifling your creativity? by Nick

Nick — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:11:48 +0000

Any group of people, whose common goal has driven them to create an organization of any sort—this case concerning religion—will come to conceptualize and admire a model member. That is, unfortunately, what common goals tend to bear on those who share them. Rules. Guidelines. Dogma. There is and always will be a facet of religion that begs us to be a certain way or do a certain set of things in order to proclaim or glorify a certain God or gods. Christianity is in this boat. Christianity adheres to principles. If you believe it doesn’t, you’re kidding yourself. It must adhere to principles. The unfortunate truth is that some Christians hold to their principles with a backbreaking rigidity, disallowing this and forbidding that in order to make Godly men and women of themselves. I know many Christians who do not abide by this sort of straight-and-narrow interpretation of Godliness. But I know many more Christians who do abide by it.
Creativity is, in my opinion, one of the heaviest casualties of rigid religion. And I don’t mean to say that religion is the only squelcher of human ambition. What strikes me so much about religion’s role in the silencing of art is that to stifle the need to create something—be it a symphony, an oil painting, a poem, a beat, a log cabin, whatever—is to tear men and women away from the sort of ambition that I think is essentially Godly. The ability to make something, to build something out of raw material and enterprise; Isn’t that the most Godly thing about us? Surely, I know, there are Christians who see this and encourage it. But I have difficulty in reconciling myself to the sort of creativity any religion supports. I owe it to the rigid way in which believers police their creativity. It tries so desperately to cling to God that it forgets Him. It needs so earnestly to serve God that it is dishonest in its service. It is something in which to clothe the truth, while what Christians ought to create and receive is naked. Uncovered. Unblemished by principle.
Some of the most distant artwork and writing from faith has provided me with some of the most spiritual moments of my life, and there was God. Funny how the box never seems to hold Him.

Comment on is church life stifling your creativity? by Bryan Buchleiter

Bryan Buchleiter — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:38:06 +0000

I agree with his conclusion (though that’s the first time in all my reading and studying that I’ve heard SOS referred to as a “dramatic opera”!)

I think the challenge with the modern church (in the USA in particular) is that we try and force our creativity on our faith rather that letting it bloom out of a life of faith. If you look that the “creative” books of the bible (mostly the poetry books) they reflect lives that were being (or had been) tried and tested.

The question for me becomes are we being creative to reflect our struggle for the gospel are are we using the gospel to serve our own creativity.

Comment on is church life stifling your creativity? by Ali Mae

Ali Mae — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:06:08 +0000

I think that church can very easily stifle creativity, the arts and imagination because we need to move in THIS direction, we need to stay within THESE lines, we can’t do THAT because that’s not what we USUALLY do, and don’t even think about doing THAT because it could shift our image, my goodness, and we can’t have that! It seems that on a small scale, there are church bodies that suppress creativity for the sake of routine, image and tradition and what is often forgotten in these places is that we serve, follow and live in relationship with the God of all creation. What a beautiful thing that is! How could a God with such a vision and imagination, create something in his own image that would not be able to imagine and create. I believe that creativity and the arts is a vital part of the church and a way in which we can continue connect with the Father. I am fortunate to be in a place that encourages the arts and provides outlets to create in community. It has been such a privilege to watch a community of artists come together under one name…to see people be encouraged and deeply affected when they look at the art or watch as it is created. The arts is an invaluable part of the church and instead of running from it, I believe that we should welcome it.