One of my very favorite verses in all of Scripture is the following: “15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.” Can you imagine being called Jesus’ friend by Jesus himself? Sometimes that just blows my mind. And notice the basis of Jesus doing so— because he has shared EVERYTHING he has learned... Read more
Certainly one of my least favorite Impressionists is Toulouse-lautrec. entitled ‘In the Salon’. Contrast the quality of this painting with the following one by Renoir There are two interesting Gauguin’s in this museum and here they are… There is one painting that seems totally out of place in this gallery of mostly Impressionists– an abstract painting by Kandinsky…entitled Klein Freuden— small joys or pleasures Cezanne’s Plate of Peaches however fits right in…. There were a lot of such still life’s... Read more
One of the most interesting museums, architecturally speaking is the Guggenheim. It was designed by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright. Here are a few shots of this remarkable museum…. And on the inside you go round and round up a walkway to the top. This museum looks rather like a spaceship from outer space, and so I was not entirely surprised that the first exhibit I saw was large green men!! Various of the paintings I came to... Read more
One of the more exotic Impressionists, who actually moved to the South Sea islands in the Pacific is Paul Gauguin and his paintings reflect this change of venue. This one is called the Moon and the Earth. A strange portrait is this one by Gauguin— of Meijer de Haan Somewhat better represented is Cezanne… this one is simply labelled Pines and Rocks Or this one called Chateau Noir… The most famous of his paintings in this museum is Still... Read more
The first museum I visited while in NY was MOMA, and in particular I went to see the Impressionist exhibit and related paintings. I was not disappointed either. It was only about a 15 minute walk from my hotel, and the weather was clement enough. One can get a proper crick in one’s neck looking up at the skyscrapers along the way. In fact this shot was taken from my room at the Hampton on the 25th floor, and I... Read more
Me with my friend the Jesuit scholar Jim Martin, in the office of America Media where he works for his church in New York. ‘A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND’ As a crucial national election season is just around the bend, it might be good to listen to the wisdom of some of our found fathers…. And before them, Jesus himself. While some have thought Abraham Lincoln came up with this phrase about ‘a house divided’... Read more
Our Hampton Inn hotel on West 55th St. was close to so many things, the theater district, great restaurants, Times Square, and MOMA– the Museum of Modern Art. We will do a separate post on the later, but here are some of the sites near where I stayed. Obviously New Yorkers have the good taste enough to know which are the best doughnuts, namely the kind that comes from N.C. There is an excellent genuine Turkish restaurant near my hotel... Read more
I went to NY to check out a site for our seminary to see if it could be an extension site for our school. But I also went to film a new documentary on Jesus for Fox streaming and the History Channel. But there was some time for some fun and so I got a free ticket to go see the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and I also made it to a jazz club called Birdland and a Neil... Read more
Without a doubt, hard rock has fallen on hard times, and you can in fact see the evidence in Hard Rock Cafes, and the Hard Rock Hotel in New York which was right across from my hotel in New York earlier this month. Just a tour of the memorabilia in this hotel tells some of the story. For example, here is Bob Dylan’s original and first guitar when he was playing in the folk clubs in NY in the 60s. ... Read more
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