Posts Tagged ‘Bradford Winters’
“Beautiful Writing” & the People of the Book
February 23, 2011
As a New Yorker who took up calligraphy in the wake of 9/11, a thought occurred to me one day. What if—in the spirit of “Show, don’t tell”—one found a more refreshing way to establish common ground among Abraham’s oft-estranged offspring of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam? What if one were to mount an exhibit in…
Read MoreTelemachus to Penelope
November 24, 2010
Year after year my mother’s birthday coincides with Thanksgiving, falling just before, after, or right on the holiday. And though it would be ridiculous to ascribe anything but chance to the calendrical synchronicity, there is something so fitting about this timing—what better time for family and friends to give thanks for a woman whose life…
Read MoreThe Embarrassed Samaritan
November 9, 2010
No doubt it was one of the more truly mortifying episodes I have ever experienced. Right up there with the time my freshman year in college when, alone at a table in the quiet library, I thought I had successfully suppressed a particularly insistent bout of dorm-food gas; but so strained was the effort that…
Read MoreWish Upon a Lone Star
October 19, 2010
In hindsight, Shooting Star might have been a more fitting title for the fall schedule’s breakout network drama, given the advance blaze of glory with which Lone Star appeared on FOX, only to promptly disappear after two episodes due to dismal ratings. Originally titled Midland for the small Texas town in which it was partially…
Read MoreExodus 2048
April 15, 2009
The year is 2048 and the nation of Israel has all but collapsed in an overnight power vacuum brought about by the double-headed disaster that coincides with its centennial: a downward spiral in foreign aid from a much weakened America, combined with the demographic liability of an exploding Palestinian population, leaves the Jewish state ripe…
Read More40
November 7, 2008
No doubt I wasn’t the only one in America on Election Night who had this thought, but still, so resonant was the effect that it felt like a revelation all my own: with uncanny biblical equivalence, exactly 40 years had passed—not 39, not 41, or, for that matter, 25 or 200—from Martin Luther King’s “I’ve…
Read MoreI Want My God TV
August 28, 2008
It’s a curious thing, watching a televised revival meeting—that ever controversial offspring of Pentecost—brought to you live in the confines of your own home. Or it was anyway, until our DirecTV went on the fritz earlier this summer, depriving me of God TV’s nightly coverage of the “Florida Outpouring” in Lakeland, which has now taken…
Read MoreOn a Photograph of a Toddler in Zimbabwe
August 13, 2008
I haven’t read Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” or “Regarding the Suffering of Others,” both extended meditations on the public consumption of images of suffering, but I do have the feeling that a recent experience of mine (and many others as well, no doubt) with a horrifying photograph in the mainstream media would make a fitting…
Read MoreImagining Christ at the Getty Center
August 1, 2008
Oh how much I’d been looking forward to this, after five weeks in Los Angeles with nary a chance to make it to my favorite place in town. You can have the Arclight, Gladstone’s, Venice Beach, and the Promenade; go ahead, take LACMA and Griffith Observatory while you’re at it. Just give me The Getty…
Read MoreImagining Christ at the Getty Center
August 1, 2008
Oh how much I’d been looking forward to this, after five weeks in Los Angeles with nary a chance to make it to my favorite place in town. You can have the Arclight, Gladstone’s, Venice Beach, and the Promenade; go ahead, take LACMA and Griffith Observatory while you’re at it. Just give me The Getty…
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