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Month: August 2019

What Should Be Considered Art?

August 28, 2019 by neal.hardin1@gmail.com Leave a Comment

Recently, I got to substitute teach in an art class. The assignment left by the teacher was very interesting and discussed 4 different pieces of "art" and what makes it "art."  The first painting was called "The Chimpanzee Painter." It was a piece of art painted by a chimpanzee named Congo. The second piece of art was a picture of a piece of driftwood. The third was a picture of a man sitting in a street with a sign around his neck saying "I am art." The fourth was a pile of bricks which was displayed in a museum. It was contrasted with a similar pile of bricks being used for construction at a different location. The Chimpanzee PainterPhoto of a piece of driftwoodMan in the street saying, "I am art."Pile of Bricks The purpose of the exercise was to discuss what constitutes [Read more...]

Posted in: Apologetics, Philosophy Tagged: Art, Food, Pornography

My 2019 ERLC Summer Internship in Washington, D.C.

August 12, 2019 by neal.hardin1@gmail.com 2 Comments

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to intern again with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). If you read my blog post last summer, I interned in their Nashville office. This time, I got to experience life with the Washington, D.C. staff in our nation's capital. What is the ERLC? For those who don't know, the ERLC is a Southern Baptist organization funded through the Cooperative Program of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the nation's largest Protestant denomination. They have two primary missions. First, they advocate on behalf of SBC churches to the government and elected officials. Second, they seek to both inform, educate, and edify SBC churches on issues relating to ethics, politics, and the Christian life. The issues they do the most work on [Read more...]

Posted in: Politics Tagged: ERLC, Internship

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