Thomas Haden Church

When I try to imagine that dead tiger shark in suspended animation, glorified in a steel box of formaldehyde, I can’t help but see it in motion. I see the walls of its glass cage expand into a murky kelp forest that masks its constant forward motion, just as Terry Tempest Williams mentions in her essay “A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness.” Though Williams addresses a broad range of issues in her work, this essay can be summarized quite easily: in order for us as humans to understand and appreciate something, we have to kill it—or pause it—to do so. “Even in death, I see this shark in motion.” (Williams 570) Only then we can fully value how it works, how it looks. We can see its aesthetic and inner workings at close range. Williams uses the example of Damien Hirst’s infamous and thought-provoking sculpture, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), the shark in the box. Williams ties her discussion of how we must stop something to see it into one of “Art by designation.” (Williams 571) She continues to speak of how if our society were to view true, wild nature as they do when they behold Hirst’s artwork made from nature, there is an inherent solution to the rapidly declining state of our environment. People would view and treat nature as artwork, “Wilderness by designation.” (Williams 571) Because of our efforts to understand and preserve, people can go into the wilderness with a new appreciation for what they see. In my…

Once in a land far far away lived a fairy named Freya. Freya was a special fairy not because she had powers but because she only had one wing. Being born with only one wing unheard of in the land of Blossom City. Living with one wing did not affect Freya as a child because she did not know anything different. It was normal for her to have just a wing even if everyone else had two. It did start to have an impact on Freya when she started to get older. There were other fairies who would make fun…

I was not able to influence those people. I was great at inspiring, because I could smile and follow directions. I think each summer I picked up another skill off the what social management looks like. I began to be more confident in myself and my team. I began to find out more information about each church to know how to make the situation better. I learned that forming a relationship first and then trying to change was much better approach to being a catalyst for change. This past summer, one…

Lincoln Cathedral is without a doubt a very well-established building which has received centuries of admiration, but perhaps generically towards its size and impressive dating alone. My subjective experience of the space both internally and externally made me realise that my appreciation and warming towards the structure was provoked from a relational feeling as if the cathedral possessed life-like qualities itself. The visual expression of structure, use of living materials, the sound it…

Introduction/ History Remembering one’s history is important in creating a productive and successful future. The Met does just that. During the early 1900s, the founding fathers of the Met experienced financial difficulties. These struggles helped orchestrate a new vision and inspired them to create an innovative PATH (prayer, attendance, tithes and offerings, and hospitable invitation), which continues today with nearly 1,100 members. The Metropolitan Baptist Church was established in 1917…

should be a repetition of creating more disciples and so forth. The question of are we doing things that we are called to do is brought up and it was especially concerned with us as people and not as the church building. With the advancement of women in the workforce and absentee fathers the church was needed more than ever for the development of families. Agencies and non-for-profits were created to support the youth because the adults were the sole focus of the church on at that time. The…

gives the building durability, strength and resistance against bad weather. Unlike the Chartres Cathedral, the construction techniques of the chapel is not as complex. The chapel does not have pointed arches, or flying buttresses to support the structure. It looks like the walls are the main supporting elements of the building. Although, the chapel has an elevated cylinder roof it does not have a clerestory, which is a part of a high wall that have windows that allow light to penetrate in the…

currently show up for church services on Sundays and 400 on Wednesdays. The church is consistently adding and losing members, but predominantly the latter is true. Therefore, we have decided to call the operational definition the revolving-door and the back-door syndrome. The revolving-door syndrome represents members coming and leaving, and the church knowing why and when they left. The back-door syndrome represents members leaving, and the church not knowing why or when they left. The…

In my ethnographic trip I headed to a Non-Denomination Hispanic Christian Church. They hold services every weekend so I specifically chose Sunday night to hear their message. I chose this church because I have a grandmother who attends here and I felt comfortable to have someone I knew guide me. My initial thoughts prior to visiting this church was the same as the other churches I had visited before. I expected to walk in and sit down with no one really paying much attention to me. I was also…

Did you know that the very first church that was built in Ost was used as school building? This happened because they built a new church and they had no other use for this first church. But this is not the only church in America that Did you know that there is a church that expresses its love for football with one of the largest mosaics of Jesus in the world? This mosaic is named Christ in Majesty and it is located in the National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. This cathedral began when…