writings_&_

connecting books

dwight friesen — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:45:02 +0000

Some more “relationality” recommended readings. For one of my prior lists, click here.

Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds
Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
Walter Brueggemann, The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant
John MacMurray, Persons in Relation
Sheila McNamee, Kenneth J. Gergen (editors), Relational Responsibility: Resources for Sustainable Dialogue
Stephen A. Mitchell, Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity
James K. A. Smith, Henry Isaac Venema, James H. Olthuis (editors), The Hermeneutics Of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, And Postmodern Faith
Leonard Sweet, The Three Hardest Words: In the World to Get Right
Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace
Margaret J. Wheatley, Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future

peace, dwight

myths of the modern mega-church

dwight friesen — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:53:45 +0000

Here is an intering link to a transcript of last spring’s forum sponsored by The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The title is “Myths of the Modern Mega-Church” featuring Rick Warren and others.

Peace, dwight

by the people, for the people

dwight friesen — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:38:55 +0000

By the People, For the People: Seekers of Faith Increasingly Take “Church” into Their Own Hands

Why the future doesn’t need us

dwight friesen — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 03:58:03 +0000

Recently I stumbled across a wonderful on article AI and and humanity’s-tomorrow. Published by Wired in August of 2000 Bill Joy (cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems) explores “Why the future doesn’t need us.”

peace, dwight

chaordic leadership

dwight friesen — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:59:06 +0000

Here is a rather famous and Worthy leadership article by Dee Hock; the founder and CEO emeritus of Visa (the credit card company).

Hock, Dee “The Art of Chaordic Leadership” Leader to Leader. 15 (Winter 2000): 20-26.

making peace

dwight friesen — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:42:00 +0000

Making Peace

by Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

A voice from the dark called out,
“The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war.”

But peace, like a poem,
is not there ahead of itself,
can’t be imagined before it is made,
can’t be known except
in the words of its making,
grammar of justice,
syntax of mutual aid.

A feeling towards it,
dimly sensing a rhythm, is all we have
until we begin to utter its metaphors,
learning them as we speak.

A line of peace might appear
if we restructured the sentence our lives are making,
revoked its reaffirmation of profit and power,
questioned our needs, allowed
long pauses. . . .

A cadence of peace might balance its weight
on that different fulcrum; peace, a presence,
an energy field more intense than war,
might pulse then,
stanza by stanza into the world,
each act of living
one of its words, each word
a vibration of light–facets
of the forming crystal.

pivotal art of the 20th C.

dwight friesen — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:34:52 +0000

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

by Marcel Duchamp

oil on canvas, 1912

146 x 89 cm

Philadelphia Museum of Art

artist disclaimer

dwight friesen — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:03:36 +0000

“In the beginning God created”

Those first words of the book of Genesis hint something of God’s artistic nature. Ours is a God who delights in the intricacies of the pedal of a flower growing on the side of a mountain for no one to enjoy but Godself: beauty for the sake of beauty.

Part of what it means for humans to be fashioned in the image of God is the desire to share our creations.

I’m on a journey to create. Believing every person is an artist of a sort - and I do use the word “artist” loosely, having never had any formal training but with a passion to give expression to my journey I occasionally pick up a brush or a camera. Please be gentle as you interact with my work.

peace, dwight