Not exact matches
When you can see direct impact and
influence of your audience, everything
comes full
circle.
I'm
influenced by David Armano who
came up with the concept
of influence ripples or
circles to depict blogger spheres
of influence as far back as 2006.
Was this the time to
circle the wagons and defend past traditions in the face
of the chaotic conditions that
came with being a province
of Persia, subject to dangerous foreign
influences?
I would add several authors / books that
influenced me outside
of Evangelical
circles: Alan Jones (Soul Making) Hans Urs von Balthazar (Engagement with God) Frederich Buechner (Telling the Truth) Walker Percy (The Second
Coming) Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov) Dante (The Divine Comedy) Madeleine L'Engle (Walking on Water) Anne Lamott (Traveling Mercies)
In the second place, the community
of faith is not a separatist closed
circle of self - satisfied members living to themselves, but a community which is again and again prepared to lose its own identity, that, like leaven, it may
come to
influence the whole
of human society in which it lives.
Now that
influence comes full
circle with Andre's creation
of a Meat Boy - inspired level in Mario Maker, a course where you'll need to pull off a lot
of challenging wall jumps without getting torn up by saws.
In any case, I feel like I'm
coming full
circle, after decades
of exploring a wide variety
of different types
of picture making, both representational and non-objective, so that these newest paintings seem to be more fully realized in terms
of how I am integrating my
influences via my specific talents, proclivities and character as a painter.