Archive for the 'Arts' Category
Music Deals / Vampire Weekend $5
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson February 1st, 2010 on Creation ProjectSome of my best music influences are PASTE, Luke Dodson, and Steve McCoy. Steve’s resource rich blog always points to great music deals on Mondays. If you hurry, you can get some amazing albums for $5 today only! He highlights:
Vampire Weekend: Contra
Led Zeppelin: IV
Eluvium: Copia
Flogging Molly: Within A Mile Of Home and Swagger
Andrew Bird: The […]
Stream Midlake’s new Courage of Others
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 30th, 2010 on Creation ProjectYou can stream the new Midlake album for free at NPR. Thanks guys!
HT: ACL
Hope for Haiti Benefit Concert!
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 15th, 2010 on Creation ProjectMusic for the City is hosting a HOPE for HAITI Benefit Concert on Monday night @ The Parish. This immediate response is for the tremendous need for relief among Haitians. Plan on coming and supporting. Let’s show Haiti they are loved!
Proceeds will go to REAL HOPE for HAITI, a non-profit organization providing medical relief and […]
As the statistics roll in, pictures cross our screens, and shivers go down our spines regarding the plight of the Haitians, we need somewhere to go with this immense suffering. I want to suggest three places:
1. Go to God in prayer for the Haitians to encounter true, whole gospel relief and attention–spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, socially, […]
On Sunday we launched a new vision series called RENEW the CITY. We looked back on evidences of God’s goodness in 2009, and looked forward in hope for more goodness in 2010. Here are a few resources related to the Austin City Life RENEW vision for 2010:
Mission for Moms: Check out Little Helping Hands an […]
Here are some of the top posts from Creation Project in 2009. As you’ll see, just because they were the most popular doesn’t mean they were the most important.
Most Popular
Primers on Pullman and the Golden Compass
Can Christians Believe in Evolution? (follow up with Keller’s new article)
Resources for Biblical Womanhood
Is Beauty in the Eye of the […]
New Article: Credemption
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson December 30th, 2009 on Creation ProjectNo one is culturally neutral. We are all enculturated from infancy to grave. To be human is to be cultural, and when Jesus became man, He became cultural. Jesus spoke Aramaic, went to Jewish temples, drank wine, wore sandals and grew a beard…
With a better understanding of culture in place, we can think more carefully […]
Here are a few things on my desk:
New Issue of Critique - this fine, free publication, edited by Denis Haack, Director of Ransom Ministries, promotes spiritual discernment on cultural issues. This issue contains a nice editorial by Haack on the brokenness of everything, and the hope of restoration of all things, “Heaven working backwards” (Lewis). […]
U2, Creativity, & Christmas
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson December 23rd, 2009 on Creation ProjectIt might come as a surprise that Rolling Stone has named No Line on the Horizon as Best Album of the Year, with Moment of Surrender as Best Song (which is a pretty amazing song: read about its development here). This album certainly marks a new expression of creativity for U2, and they still don’t […]
When I picked up Cormac McCarthy’s to be Pulitzer Prize winner a few years ago, I didn’t put it down until five days later, when I finished it. This unfinished novel transports the reader into a post-apocalyptic world with no explanation at all. Critics praise the film’s adaptation of these striking apocalyptic elements, and while […]