Swords into Plowshares

I recently ran across a biblical truth about peace from the book of Isaiah powerfully imagined via art. I offer it as a visual aid to invite us into Christmas meditations about the incarnation and ministry of Jesus Christ as Prince of Peace.

Olympics Take Away

Revisiting East London: On Second Thought by Charles Strohmer By the middle of the provocative Opening Ceremony (OC) for the Olympics two weeks ago, I was having a gut reaction and immediately blogged about it, with a provocative title itself:  Nightmares in East London. For reasons too obvious to need mentioning, gut reactions should afterward […]

Nightmares in East London

Opening Olympics Ceremony, Little to Applaud by Charles Strohmer Apparently the opening ceremony of the London Olympics is about half over. I’m taking a break from it while the countries file into the stadium. I’m watching this on NBC-TV here in the States. It’s been taped. NBC did not start showing it until 7.30pm, Eastern […]

John Peck (conversation)

Charles Strohmer talks with John Peck, British theologian and philosopher, about how dramatically his life – as a Christian – changed with the discovery that God’s wisdom was for all of life. Read the interview here

Rambo on War; Wisdom on Peace

“Old men start wars. Young men fight them. And everyone in the middle gets killed. War is natural. Peace is accidental. We’re animals.” This piece plays Stallone’s Rambo off the quite different view of war held by Chris Hedges and Jonathan Schell, two authors who believe that that “wisdom is better than weapons of war.”

Karen L. Mulder (conversation)

Charles Strohmer gets art historian and critic Karen L. Mulder to take us inside the visual arts and help them come alive for us.

This conversation was originally published in Openings #12, Jul-Sept, 2001.

Paul Patton (conversation)

Charles Strohmer talks at length with actor, playwright, and teacher Paul Patton about drama and the performing arts. He’s well worth a listen.

This conversation was originally published on Openings #8, Jul-Sept, 2000. Slightly edited for the Web.

The Power of a Good Story

This story inside a story about part of my own story was inspired by what I still consider to be John LeCarré’s best work, The Little Drummer Girl, a novel that spoke to me in a way I did not expect.