Logos (The Biblical Manuscripts/Canon of Scriptures) & Rhema (The Person/Life/Words/Death/Resurrection of Jesus Christ): The ‘special’ & ‘ultimate’ revelation of God. Without these revelations God would be unsearchable, unknowable, and inscrutable.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The ‘words’ of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the weight of Canon, however they were neither paper-like nor mere ‘pellets’.”~R. Alan Woods...

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas...

What’s required of me in the field is to feel,’ Stirton says with emphasis. ‘And trying to take that feeling and put it in a form that communicates a particular set of emotions or circumstances...

photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…

If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture.

How promising today’s generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I’d like to see these kids...

Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions. To quarrel on its behalf is always a blunder.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain,...

If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow our...

Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church’s proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of...

And I *know* I wrote in the above that I hate biographies and reviews that focus on the psychological, surface detail, especially when they pertain to women writers, because I think it’s really about the...

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.