faith – Page 2 – Author Adrienne Morris

Taking every penny from the school treasury to pay for their traveling expenses the Fisk Jubilee Singers set out on a mission to ensure the continuance of the school they dearly loved. Only a few months after the end of the Civil War John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P.…

Adrienne Morris

October 28, 2014

Men, United States History, Women

Bravery, Christianity, Civil War, faith, Fisk University, heroes, Jubilee Singers, Life, missionaries, Music They Listened To (in my novels), Swing Low Sweet Chariot

“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” CS Lewis

LINKS: Muslim vs Western Slave Trade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade Slave Tags Slaves of Every Color Slaves in Charleston http://amzn.to/Zvcbcy

Adrienne Morris

October 2, 2014

Beautiful Images, Evil Men, United States History

19th century, antique prints, Books, CS Lewis, faith, God, Mere Christianity, muslim, slave tags, slavery

It’s Not Your Fault That You’re Evil–Or Is It?

I was going to write about a charming little bookstore I visited recently, but then I happened upon the horrifying photos of beheaded Christian children still in their adorable kid clothes. I really wanted to just escape back into the past or at least into a charming bookstore. I wanted to flip through books that…

Adrienne Morris

August 19, 2014

Evil Men

Books, bookstore, Christians massacred, deaths in Chicago, evil, faith, farmhouse, free will, God, Nature, photos, Rural America

Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.

All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart…

Adrienne Morris

January 30, 2014

Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, Intoxication

19th century, Addiction, Art, Christianity, Drug Abuse, drugs, Ecclesiastes, faith, King Solomon, Newspapers, Quotes

On New Year’s Day: A Reverie With Henry O. Tanner

Henry O Tanner, the son of a slave transcended race through his art and through his Christianity. Back then educated people didn’t just assume that Christians were reactionary bigots (of course some did). Christian themed art wasn’t seen as offensive but part of the long and spectacular tradition of Western civilization. Tanner was the first…

Adrienne Morris

January 1, 2014

Beautiful Images, inspirational, Writing

19th Century Art, African American Artist, Americana, Art, Chritianity, faith, Galatians, Life, Paintings, Racism, Spiritualism

Creation’s Magic Numbers–Every Link New Fascinations

Golden Ratio in Art: http://www.goldennumber.net/botticelli-birth-venus-golden-ratio-art/ Golden Ratio in Nature: http://io9.com/5985588/15-uncanny-examples-of-the-golden-ratio-in-nature Golden Ratio in Creation: http://lucas2012infos.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/the-golden-ratio-fingerprint-of-god-19-august-2012/ Golden Ratio in Music: http://www.constructingtheuniverse.com/Amen%20Break%20and%20GR.html Golden Ratio in Physics: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7287/full/464362a.html

Adrienne Morris

December 8, 2013

Beautiful Images, Uncategorized

Art, faith, God, Golden Ratio, Life, Math, Music They Listened To (in my novels), Physics, science

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