Comments on: Erato and Melpomene

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:13:24 +0000

BTW, I just noticed that some of the Amar Chitra Katha comics are free downloads on the iPhone. I don’t really like reading comics panel-by-panel on a small screen though.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:03:52 +0000

Juniper — The Gita is wonderful. But what I was thinking in that realm was to get her a bunch of Amar Chitra Katha comics… A friend of mine lent me a stack of them ages ago and they’re great.

By: beardyface

beardyface — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:57:33 +0000

I just wanted to say that I think it’d wonderful that you are including religions in her education. Before you decide to disagree with something, you should first gain an understanding of it

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:32:32 +0000

I like and appreciate the art and your educating Ari in religion, I loved my book of Bible stories as a favorite. I honestly never knew that anyone took it literally when I was a child. I thought it was understood that they were parables.
Speaking of religion, you did two Pietas? Another favorite!

By: Juniper

Juniper — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:22:00 +0000

You might want to do the Bhagavad Gita next instead of the Koran – to switch up Western/Eastern. (Also: if you haven’t picked up R. Crumb’s Genesis, it’s incredible.)

By: HJP

HJP — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:49:31 +0000

Eastern religions are a group I’d like to study further, right now I’m learing about Asatru (modern day viking religion) and just starting on Urglaawe. You can spend your whole life just learning a little on each religion and probably not get to them all. Your daughter shall be well roundedin her knowledge nbo matter what path she chooses, she will not be walking blind on what she was spoon fed.

By: saphir

saphir — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:14:17 +0000

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By: starbadger

starbadger — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:55:13 +0000

1 Corinthians 13 (The Message)

1 Corinthians 13
The Way of Love
1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

11When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

12We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:38:57 +0000

I’d like to re-read the bible, since it’s been a very long time since I last read it.

I don’t think you can fully appreciate most English literature without at least a working knowledge of both Old and New Testament.

By: Valmai

Valmai — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:29:45 +0000

Have you looked at “Biblial Literacy: The Essential Bible Stories Everyone Needs to Know” by Timothy Beal? It has the main passages (directly quoted from the NRSV)plus a little commentary. It’s written for the purpose of cultural education rather than from a religious advertising standpoint. I’ve learnt a lot from it already.

By: Carol the Longwinded

Carol the Longwinded — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:02:34 +0000

Are you readng a book of Bible stories, or pieces of a Bible? Because that whole Noah thing is waaaay different in the Bible than in kiddie books. My eldest son, when he was 7, and I read Genesis (the New Jerusalem version, fwiw) and mercy – I stopped reading it because it was the most racist thing I have ever read. Made me give up all that Christianity stuff. The 13 yr old is now an (anti-racist) Heathen.
Pilgrim’s Progress is a good one too, if you can stand it, because that has a lot to do with White European Protestant US culture.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:14:48 +0000

If you don’t mind, which version of the Bible are you reading? I’ve tried before, but have stopped and started as the language in the NIV is still fairly dry. At some point, I want to work through the main stories at least (for very similar reasons to yours). Thanks!

By: Karika

Karika — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:32:40 +0000

This reminds me of the two Pietas you did many years ago. However your growth as an artist is clear in the way you can now emote with a much lighter touch. Though I very much enjoyed your ‘catoon art’, I am looking forward to this new phase of Shannon Larratt, the artist.