arts and culture on Perspective

The very nature of light provides contrast. In juxtaposition, differing levels of light illuminate in extraordinary ways, helping us to see what we’ve been missing. In the late 1400s, the art world ma...

Paolo Uccello, an Italian painter and craftsman of the early Renaissance, lived in Florence during the late 14th and early 15th centuries. His obsession with perspective was so intense that he would s...

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

Have you ever noticed that we often see ourselves, specifically our bodies, our facial features differently? In 2013 the soap company Dove decided to explore this phenomenon by hiring an FBI-trained f...

One helpful, practical tool to understand our blind spot is what’s called the Johari Window, an image developed as a counseling tool in the 1950s. Subjects were given a list of fifty-six adjectives, a...

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

"This building has to be at least…. three times bigger than this!"

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I believe we all need to reframe our stories, at least parts of them, in order to heal, to discard lies, to move from partial truths to richer, fuller explanations, to see our lives as God sees them.

History is always a matter of trying to think into the minds of people who think differently from ourselves.

The key for successful personal relationships and ministry is to understand and accept others as having a viewpoint as worthy of consideration as our own.