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April 10, 2006
Chicago Seen, Heard, and Eaten
Things seen:
And, ironically, given the conference subject:
Oh boy.
(The best sight, though, was seeing our dear friends Dustin and Annie.)
Things heard:
- Father Edward T. Oakes on Balthasar and beauty as the starting point for apologetics
- Jim Fodor on reading Scripture as both a cognitive and aesthetic craft
- Makoto Fujimura on beauty springing from a recognition of what is lost
- Bruce Herman on recognizing the beauty in the still-broken but glorified body of Christ
- Jeremy Begbie playing Bach and Chopin
- Artie Terry on how movies work psychologically and physiologically
- Roy Anker on the capacity of film to display the "sacred spaces wherein God shows up"
- E. John Walford on the art historical perspective of beauty in the transformation of the disfigured
- Justin Borger and myself saying "Neo-Platonic" with alarming regularity
Things eaten:
- Vietnamese-Chinese shrimp broccoli stir fry
- homemade ramen bowls with chicken vegetable shumai
- assorted wonders at an Indian all-you-can-eat buffet
- "Pots o' Gold" at an Irish pub
- bacon, cheese, mushroom, and spinach stuffed crepes with poppyseed dressing
- Earl de la Creme tea
deep dish pizza
Carefully Dramatized Life Accounts | By elissa | 01:59 PM
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Comments
Nothing like a quick jog through heaven. If one were to start selling illicit drugs outside that building, one would quickly make a pile of money. I am not recommending this, mind you. Merely noting.
Posted by: mesh at April 12, 2006 03:55 PM
Yes, Mesh, you probably could.
Really, one of my favorite things about visiting Wheaton is asking my companions, "Hey, we're going to heaven!" And then, we go. Boom.
Posted by: elissa at April 12, 2006 05:13 PM
It's not so much Pilgrim's Progress as Pilgrim's Immediate if Temporary Gratification.
Posted by: mesh at April 13, 2006 11:14 AM
