December 2012 - Cultivare

December 31, 2012

Claudia Alvarez, Flower Girl, ceramic, 2011 Art is like a magnet, attracting, collecting, and accumulating...

December 26, 2012

December 26 is a day marked on the church calendar as The Feast of Stephen....

December 24, 2012

In my day job as curator of LIBERATE, the online resource ministry of Tullian...

December 21, 2012

Jesus was born into a world of violence. A world where demented people kill innocent...

December 19, 2012

As the conversation invariably moved over to gun bans and gun control in the horrific...

December 18, 2012

Gustave Courbet, The Source of the Loue, 1864. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The...

December 14, 2012

My heart is heavy and my prayers go out to those touched by the horrific...

December 14, 2012

This next quarter, I will be teaching one of my favorite courses: Perspectives on Evil and...

December 14, 2012

Not too long ago I participated in a Patheos book club discussion of The Holy Nomad, by...

December 12, 2012

A local pastor who recently left his church to launch a food market where individuals...

December 11, 2012

A recent article in Humanities has caused me to give some thought to the audience for...

December 07, 2012

What to do with all these worthless Ph.D.'s in the humanities? The Chronicle of Higher...

December 07, 2012

My Facebook feed is a-twitter with exclamations about the recent decision at Tufts University to...

December 06, 2012

I've been doing some work beyond my weekly posts here at CULTIVARE and...

December 05, 2012

In what has become an annual tradition with no connection to Elvis, churches around the...

December 03, 2012

The market for artist Damien Hirst's work seems to have bottomed out. And those who...