Mitchell

“the tendency of evangelicals over the past few years has been to zero in on the content of digital media, to encourage one another to use discernment, filters, accountability, and time limits. These things can be valuable, but a focus on content to the exclusion of form creates an illusion of purity.”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

“People who didn’t know long words tended to be edgy around people who did.”
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

“Industry without art is brutality. Art is specifically human. None of those primitive peoples, past or present, whose culture we affect to despise and propose to amend, has dispensed with art; from the stone age onwards, everything made by man, under whatever conditions of hardship or poverty, has been made by art to serve a double purpose, at once utilitarian and ideological.
It is we who, collectively speaking at least, command amply sufficient resources, and who do not shrink from wasting these resources, who have first proposed to make a division of art, one sort to be barely utilitarian, the other luxurious, and altogether omitting what was once the highest function of art, to express and to communicate ideas.”
― Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Christian & Oriental Philosophy of Art Formerly: "Why Exhibit Works of Art?"

“The internet is an epistemological habitat that makes genuine wisdom difficult and unappealing.”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age