Category: Life and Culture

The Baptised Imagination: Conference Lectures

1 March, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 3 categories

You’ll find here some insightful talks by Ken Myers (Mars Hill Audio) and Matthew Dickerson (The Mind and the Machine, A Hobbit Journey) that help us recover the imagination and recognize its significance. Enjoy.

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Life As A Night Terror

26 February, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 3 categories

                    Imagine this: Night Terrors. I was eleven. I dreaded the night time and so a visceral and physical something thickened in my belly and chest

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Dreaming of Skulls

22 February, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

                      Christianity is a religion of metaphors, analogies, types, and shadows. All these are only understood by imagination and for this reason, “imagination is indispensable

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The Crane’s Claw

19 February, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

                    The imagination, overloaded as it is with sensual pleasure and distraction, needs a touchstone, a frame of reference by which to be anchored. Remember the

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A Quote From Geoffrey Chaucer

14 February, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

                    “All men know that the true good is Happiness, and all men seek it, but for the most part by wrong routes—like a drunk man

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Life Without Toad

5 February, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

                How fondly I hold hands with our narcissistic society. Nearly every corner of my life preaches a gospel of self-satisfaction, that a vibrant life is found strictly

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Nearly Naked With No Place To Go

1 February, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

                    I was headed to a cabin on the lake with my two eldest children. We had been there once before. It’s not a cabin, really:

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A Quote from Rich Mullins

26 January, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

              “There’s so much beauty around us, and just two eyes to see…but everywhere I go, I’m looking.”                                                                                                                                                                                                        -Rich Mullins    

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