We’re always so serious. Today I’m giving away this whimsical watercolor and ink miniature on Arches heavy cotton rag paper, measuring 2.5″x3.5″. These little kids are having a riot. They don’t have to schedule fun in. Unless you become like one of these… All you have to do to enter the contest is: Join my free newsletter. Comment on this blog post. The contest ends midnight tonight Atlantic Time. Have fun! Sometimes it is very difficult for someone to make... Read more
“… there is no proper public, no listener to adequately receive their testimony” (Slavoj Žižek) Surely the key feature of Christianity is its advocacy of agony. Primo Levi suggested that Hitler did things so appalling to Jews in concentration camps that no one would believe it unless they had been there. Girls were repeatedly raped during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. The atrocities were so horrific and unbelievable that no one would listen to their story. Many of them... Read more
I don’t want to say anything about this one. Do you want to work together analyzing your dreams (yes, I mean the ones you have while you’re sleeping)? Email me and we can arrange it: haywardart at gmail dot com (read more…) Read more
Dreams have played a major role in my spiritual journey. I have been working with dreams… mine and other’s… for over 25 years now. These are the three major contributions of dreams to my life: self-awareness: Dreams are the language of the unconscious. Our “self” is rather like an iceberg: 10% above water (the conscious) and 90% below (the unconscious). We are only aware of that which is conscious. That which is unconscious is either completely unknown to us or... Read more
True story. A pastor who I trusted as my mentor once asked what my problem was with him… while he was physically poking my chest with his finger! Finally exhausted by his intimidation tactics, I said, “I find you very overpowering. Others do too. And I don’t think that’s fair because you send the message that you don’t respect others or their opinions. It has the effect of silencing people into submission.” His response was, “That’s because I am a... Read more
Since some people take a superficial reading of what I do on this blog and conclude I hate the church, I thought I would write a short post on the many things I am thankful to the church for: Even though I’ve made countless enemies, and continue to do so, I have made some very good life-long friends. Even though the system’s gravitational pull is towards the dehumanization of its members, I have seen moments of heroic advocacy on behalf... Read more
There are many people without a pastor who would love to have one to talk with… one they can trust. I’m offering myself for pastoral counseling, spiritual direction, dream work, etc… Email me and we can arrange it: haywardart at gmail dot com (read more…) Read more
Have you ever experienced this?: You see something you might be interested in online. It says, “Click here if interested!” You click. It takes you to another page with no substantially new information. But there’s another button that says, “Click here for more information!” This time it asks you for your address and email address please, so as better to serve you. Well, you’re so interested in the product that you reluctantly enter the information and click the button to... Read more
You can get a quality fine art print of this cartoon or its original here. Isn’t it strange sometimes how what we normally think would be dangerous and what would be safe gets reversed? Our young woman has made a journey through the deep dark woods. She’s finally come to a clearing. Should she leave the dark shelter of the forest and enter the clearing? She’s not sure because she will expose herself to any potential threat. But if she... Read more
Is this the church you’re going to today? With friends? Will you feel the oneness? Even if you disagree on the outcome, you still love each other, eat and drink in communion together, laugh together and care for each other, and be sad when you have to go your separate ways? I’m offering my services for pastoral counseling, spiritual direction, dream work, etc… Email me and we can arrange it: haywardart at gmail dot com (read more…) Read more
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