Category Archives: Faith

Mandala Making on the Web

In the 2014 excerpt from my journal “Climbing Bryan’s Mountain,” I commented on the Buddhist ritual of sand mandalas as a symbol of the beauty and impermanence of life.  After days of patiently using colored sand to build the mandala’s elaborate … Continue reading

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30th ANNIVERSARY of the Gospel Extravaganza

Saturday, FEBRUARY 3rd, NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE, 7:30 p.m. Psalm 90, verse 4, says, “For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night,” so a 30th Anniversary might … Continue reading

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Climbing Up That Mountain

Below, a simple Video rendering of my song “Climbing Up That Mountain.”  In church they’d call it a “choral anthem.” I worked on my doctorate at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from 1973 to 1977, attending the adjacent University … Continue reading

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