Jenneth Leed

“One reminder from Emily [Dickinson]’s life is that one needs nothing more than a small and dedicated space to make significant impact in culture.”
― Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life

“When we first read about the image of God in people in Genesis 1, we have as yet heard nothing about God as redeemer or the God of providence or the covenant God or the God of moral truth. The one thing that we know about God is that he created the world. In its immediate narrative context, then, the doctrine of the image of God in people emphasizes that people, are, like God, creators.”
― Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

“Meaning in fiction is thus viewed as what an action leads to, results in, or implies. If the experiment in living succeeds, the work can be said to affirm that world view. If the experiment fails, the work denies that view of reality and by implication usually suggests an alternative.”
― Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

“The first thing the Bible does is introduce us to the God of the universe. He is introduced as a creative artist.”
― Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts