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My trip out east was accompanied with the National – not their latest, but their signature, “Boxer.” It was the sound for my drive through the Turnpike, through NYC, on the LIE, even through the suburbs of VA. “Showered and blue-blazin” I ferried from sight to site wearing a black suit in 95 degree weather. It was home for this Brooklyn-based band and it sounded like home to me. Everything they spoke about – building Fake Empires yet staying true, having a cause to fight for to begin with, feeling clean in a big city, getting Mistaken for Strangers by your own friends: Read more…

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One thing I love about Regent is its emphasis on art. So the current discussion is if there be something religious about art, both the experience of viewing it and creating it. Having a Bachelor of Fine Art from Parsons School of Design, I am somewhat aware of the conventions – but I also know how godless the study of art can be. Nonetheless, now, almost 15 yrs since I first set foot in NYC’s art scene, I adamantly do believe there be a spark of divinity in the creator and the created. A hermeneutical shift, here the “Christian viewer” can have one of two responses when confronted with “art”: Read more…

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