EN93 Personal Truth Shopper
06/07/11 15:50
This one came off the back of some work I have been doing in Proverbs. Truth is wrongly characterised as being private, personal, malleable. If something is true it is True regardless of whether you accept it. Christians are no different from anyone else in this - we are all prone towards ignoring things that don't suit us.
The epilogue text is the famous Mars Hill message by Paul where he speaks directly into a situation of self-delusion with the Truth of the Resurrection.
EN64 We Live In Boxes.
01/02/09 13:55
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you will need to scroll down to find the exact part).
I have been investing a fair amount of time preparing for a retreat for 60 kids this week that looks at the ancient wisdom of proverbs on friendship. While digging around I found a wonderful quote in a Peter Lewis talk that I used as a basis for this cartoon. Currently I have no one to attribute it to, but I don't claim it for my own!
The disturbing thing about writing and thinking on genuine box-challenging friendship is that it immediately highlights all of your own failings in this area. It also reminds me of a number of people who have been astonishing friends to me in one way of another.
May I propose a toast to the best of friendships in our lives?
Here are a handful of beautiful quotes sent to my by John Tindall (via some Bible software - or was it the other way round?):
It is easy to treat people as means to an end rather than as ends in themselves. As a gregarious man once boasted, “I have friends I haven’t even used yet.”
A false friend is like your shadow. As long as there is sunshine, he sticks close by. But the minute you step into the shade, he disappears.
A friend has been defined as the first person who comes in when the whole world has gone out. Value a friend who, for you, finds time on his calendar—but cherish the friend who, for you, does not even consult his calendar.
EN54 Fooled by TV: not just in April
01/04/08 13:54
The BBC proudly paraded this 'April Fools' piece on the 2nd of April.
My mind got working on the thought: why do we need to be told it is a joke? Why the permission? Anyway, you get the idea.
The sketch book ideas (sorry - haven't had time to scan them yet) varied enormously. Originally I was going to have a panel for each month and a specific 'fool' idea for each.
