Author: Fred Sanders
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Heven is a Wonderful Place
Freddy Age Six, by special request, delivers a vision of heaven rendered in his medium of choice, washable markers. To what shall we liken the kingdom of heaven? Heaven (or, as the stylized swirly writing in the upper right corner has it, “heven”) is a kind of castle city. There are angels everywhere: I see…
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Hobbits is From Kentucky!
When J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford, he found that one of his classmates (Allen Barnett) was from the state of Kentucky, and that this classmate had a lot of good stories about how Kentucky folk talk, behave, and live. Tolkien pumped Barnett for all the Kentucky info he could get out…
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Two Lost Dogs Bark in Berkeley
Last Thursday (June 7, 2007), Terry Taylor and Mike Roe, two members of the Lost Dogs, played an intimate acoustic concert for a group of Biola students studying in the Torrey Berkeley program. Taylor and Roe are both accomplished singer-songwriters in their own rights, and over their years of touring and recording together, their collaboration…
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Trinity Debate: Sanders vs. Buzzard
A few years ago I was invited to engage in a public debate on the Trinity with an anti-trinitarian teacher named Anthony Buzzard. Professor Buzzard teaches that Jesus was nothing more than a human uniquely used by God. His theology is basically Socinian, and he teaches at Atlanta Bible College, which is not your average…
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Graduation Celebration
You might want to study this one for a minute before I offer my interpretation of the drawing by a six year old. . Done? . Okay. It’s an American flag wearing a mortarboard, dancing and waving its hands. Its fingers are like bombs bursting in air, and its tassel is having a party of…
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A Prayer for the Class of 2007
This is a prayer for the 2007 graduates of the Torrey Honors Institute, spoken at the commencement ceremony on May 25, 2007. Our Father in Heaven, we bring before you today these graduates of the Torrey Honors Institute. They have spent four years with us, talking and talking and talking. They have talked in seminar…
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Remembering the Sinai Icon Show at the Getty
Here is a piece I wrote for a new journal called Atelier. It’s a review of the major icon show that was at the Getty Center this past year. The exhibit is long gone, but this review may help you get a sense of how great it was. Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from the…
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Drafthorse/Clidestale
Artist: Freddy Age Six. Title: Drafthorse/Clidestale Size: 8 X 10 in (12 X 17 with frame) Medium: Magnetophoretic display screen (patented materials, commercially available) Provenance: Southern California Date: May 2007 Current Location: non-existent This image was produced and destroyed in the same Spring afternoon. The visual plane is divided into two long horizontal zones, each…
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Butterfly Sorted
It’s awfully untidy of butterflies to mix and mingle all their colors, don’t you think? Phoebe Age Four does. So she sorted this one out for you. Purple dots go here, yellow up there, black over here, and green down in the– hey, what’s with the mixing of color dots down here in the lower…
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Awaken in Us Childlike Reverence and Trust
The Heidelberg Catechism is one of the treasures of the Reformation. Written by Zacharius Ursinus (I call him Zacky Bear) and Kaspar Olevianus, it is 129 Q&A exchanges which guide you devotionally through the core of Christian doctrine. The last nine questions in the catechism unpack the meaning of every line of the Lord’s prayer.…
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Evangelism Torrey-Style
This semester I had the privilege of leading a class on evangelism. It wasn’t my idea. A group of my students in the Torrey Honors Institute asked for a chance to give serious attention to evangelism, so I put together an elective seminar for them. In addition to covering the standard topics that have to…