“We shall have to break our habit of having church in such a way that people are deceived into
“We shall have to break our habit of having church in such a way that people are deceived into thinking that they can be Christians and remain strangers.”- Stanley Hauerwas [Q Train - 1990 - Nigel Van Wieck] • Stanley Hauerwas sat on the hand-me-down couch at the far end of the living room. His audience, a collection of Christian activists, many of whom had driven more than an hour to the talk, crammed into the kitchen, dining room, living room and two adjoining bedrooms of the Silk Hope, N.C., Catholic Worker House to spend a couple of hours in February listening to the man Time magazine calls, “America’s best theologian.” More: http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives/062102/062102a.htm• Composition is Van Wieck’s primary concern because it supports his narrative: “I am a storyteller and the viewer is my audience,” he explains, “but before then, while sitting at the easel, I am the audience member who must be drawn in.” Seemingly taken from real life, his scenes are, in fact, what John Arthur has trenchantly called “carefully edited constructions.” While composing, Van Wieck consults live models, photographs, and clippings, but usually relies upon his memory because, he believes, “reality is much better when it is imagined.” More: https://nigelvanwieck50.blogspot.com/ -- source link
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