No. 19
CONTENTS
Essays
A Good Name
Joey Earl Horstman
What's in a name? In this essay, Joey Earl
Horstman offers theological insights into the
creative act of naming in the world, as well as
providing a personal history of the Horstman clan.
Naming is serious business, indeed.
Artists in the Way
Finding Truth in Dangerous Places
David B. Hutchens
Where art is concerned, is there any such thing as
objective truth apart from the individual
outworking of that truth? This essay examines the
roles of self-consciousness and
Christ-consciousness in the inventive process,
revealing that perhaps the artist should never
"get out of the way."
The Trouble with Church Art
Jeanne Schinto
The tendency toward ritual is strong in many
children. Stone altars, vestments, and other
trappings of faith are made, all to the end of
instilling and maintaining a certain childlike
awe. In this reminiscence, Jeanne Schinto recounts
some of her own steps in the replacement of "kiddy
faith" with something more substantial.
Studies
Friends Have All Things in Common
Erasmus' Utopian Dreams of a Better World
Liam Atchison
Plato, Augustine, Thomas More, and Erasmus were
among many in the history of philosophy who
dreamed of a perfect world. In this penetrating
study of the thoughts of Erasmus, Utopia would
consist of a place where a pure New Testament
religion would reign supreme, and human beings
would spend their days in friendship, community,
and sharing.
Beyond Nostalgia
Passenger Trains, Art, and the Postmodern
J. Craig Thorpe
We live in a modern, sprawling, car-oriented
consumer culture, where each person travels around
in his or her individual pod, often oblivious to
the surrounding world. Isn't there a better way?
In this study, J. Craig Thorpe, a consumer
advocate for rail passengers, offers solutions
that reside in a new, "ironic" view of the past.
The Mars Hill Interview
The Art of Story
A Conversation with Walter Wangerin, Jr.
Jeanette Hardage
"Preaching preaches: teaching teaches. Fiction
merely invites people to experience." Thus says
Walter Wangerin, a noted author and lecturer, on
the divide between the vocations of the artist and
the minister. In this lively conversation,
Wangerin discusses the role of artists and
storytellers in bringing light, pleasure--and
experience--to their audiences.
Reminders of God
The Writing Life
Fiction
Closed for Remodeling
Sharon Gunter
Nonfiction
Serenade
Christy Swisher
The Pillow
Mary Kenny
Poetry
The dark
Luci Shaw
The Woodlands Have a Rank and Moldy Smell
Susan St. Martin
Home
Valerie Weaver-Zercher
Agricola
G. C. Waldrep
Gathering Stones
Amy Cloud
Letters of Nicodemus (I)
David Sten Herrstrom
Rediscovering Electricity
Laurie B. Klein
Madness in the Field
Gayle Boss
The Baptism
Barry Ballard
Views and Reviews
Music
Essays:
Midwestern Radicals
How My Love for Over the Rhine Nearly Got Me Expelled
Jesse J. DeConto
The Violent Bear It Away
Technology, Mystery, and the Sublime in the Music of Radiohead
Caroline Langston
Reviews:
Red Dirt Girl, Emmylou Harris
James A. Sparrell
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Various Artists
David W. Johnson
Essence, Lucinda Williams
Dave Urbanski
Music Also Reviewed
James A. Sparrell
Books
Interviews:
Floatplanes, Baptists, Writers, and Friends
A Conversation with Clyde Edgerton and Tim McLaurin
Sheryl Cornett
A Writer's Composition
A Conversation with Albert Murray
Tom Fredrick
Review: Sister India, Peggy Payne
Sheryl Cornett
Books Also Reviewed
Tom Fredrick, James Vescovi, B. B. Puckstein, and Sheryl Cornett
Film
Essay:
Finding the Unexpected
Competing Visions of the Inner City and Art in Slam and Finding Forrester
Apricot Anderson
Reviews:
Traffic
Bryan Null
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
David Schaap
Dr. T and the Women
Elizabeth Currier
Films Also Reviewed
Scott Emmert and Joey Earl Horstman
Risvolti
The Editors
Mars Hill Contributors
