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Category: Art

  • Reclaiming Eden, Part II: Adam’s Weakness

    Continued from Part I. Man and Woman were walking by a range of hills. Suddenly, a gleam of light caught Woman’s eye.  She glanced up, and saw a beautiful blue sparkle high up on the side of a cliff.  “Oh my,” she said, “how lovely!  I wonder what that is?” Without…

  • Reclaiming Eden, Part I: Eve’s Triumph

    The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal GOD had made. He spoke to the Woman: “Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?” The Woman smiled and said to the serpent, “Not at all. Actually, God did not tell…

  • The San Jose Declaration: Ending the Abortion Wars

    April 1st, 2031 A.D. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the San Francisco Revival of the 2020s was an end to the politicization of abortion, in a way that seemed unimaginable to those who lived through the culture wars that peaked during the Trump presidency.  While extremists on both sides…

  • Broken Words: Lament of the Spiritual Entrepreneur

    Broken words and broken hearts, Broken lies keep us apart How can we speak a truth we’ve never heard? Broken words inside my heart, They are tearing me apart How can we save the world with broken words? Broken Words

  • Monk’s Redemption: A Psychological Allegory

    The Vision
I see a locked door. In a dark and scary place, like a monster movie. Big, iron, with crisscrossed chains and padlocks.
Natalie walks up holding a flashlight. Monk trails behind nervously.
Suddenly Stottlemeyer steps in front of them. His eyes are bloodshot, as if he has been drinking, crying, or…

  • Cavern of the Bells: A Parable

    Cavern of the Bells: A Parable

    “The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface…” — Genesis 1:2  At first, it seemed there was no sound or light of any kind. But as my senses adjusted, I heard a faint tinkling of bells. Straining my eyes, I saw tiny patches of light scattered…

  • Fixing Saint Paul, Scene 1: Awakening Barnabas

    The Story Acts 13:13 Paul and his companions then left Paphos by ship for Pamphylia, landing at the port town of Perga. There John Mark left them and returned to Jerusalem. The Backstory Scene 1: Awakening “Barnabas? Are you awake?” Barnabas rolled over on his cot to gaze at the…

  • Mrs. Charming’s Castle, Act I

    The gnomes invaded the continent almost exactly one year after Prince Kit Charming married Cinderella, now known as Princess Ella. “My son,” said the King. “While I gladly gave you a year to enjoy life with your beautiful bride, It is now time for you to take on the duties…

  • Body Talk

    Is it true? Christ on the cross, sacrificing his body for the sake of the world. He was only doing what he saw His Father doing.

  • A Few Words With The Old Man

    We walk along the shore to our favorite fishing spot.  I walk on the sand. He walks on the water…

  • Falling Up

    I am falling, falling. It is neither hot not cold, I feel nothing. I see nothing. Just falling, falling. Down, down, down… I wake up. I am lying on my back in a field of wild grass. The smell of earth fills my nostrils. The air is warm, springlike. The…

  • Wrestling with God’s

    Wrestling with God’s

    Originally written 10:35 PM Friday, September 25th, 2009 Genesis 32 – Passage Lookup – New Century Version – BibleGateway.com Joshua 5 – Passage Lookup – New King James Version – BibleGateway.com [It is dark.  I am alone.  Everything I have and love has been sent ahead of me. In the morning, I…

  • Redemption: A Vision in Many Pieces

    Redemption A Vision in Many Pieces Ernest Prabhakar June 8th, 2001 “God, its too big for me to carry!” “I know, my son.” We sat at the bottom of my heart, facing the dark, concrete-like slab which was my need for love, my desire for human intimacy to the fill…

  • Song: That’s Grace

    Part 2 of the Guilt-Grace-Gratitude musical trilogy, from my 1996 meditations on The Grace Cycle.

  • Song: From Guilt to Grace

    The following song is a lyrical version of “Graphical Theology: The Grace Cycle“, part of my burst of artistic exploration in 1996. It was the first element of a trilogy on the Reformation themes of Guilt-Grace–Gratitude, but unlike the other two I never was happy enough with it to put…

  • If Only In My Youth

    If Only In My YouthIf only I had known you     known you, truly known you If only I had known you in my youth…

  • Song: No Longer Alone

    This is a song I wrote back in 1996 in my post-college, pre-Apple days in Pasadena, California. It was for a girl I knew — heck, it fit pretty much all the girls I hung out with and/or was interested in during that decade. I also sang it during a…

  • Unforgiven: A Testimony in Three Persons

    I’m in the process of cleaning up my “personal” site on DrErnie.com, and as part of that I’m moving some of my earlier writings to this site. To start with, I present “Unforgiven”, a more-or-less accurate transcript of the first time God really dealt with me about anger… Unforgiven A…

  • Good News for Modern Nerds

    The Nerd Bible (pdf) started with my sermon notes from 1985 at Park Street Church in Boston, where I was an MIT sophomore…

  • This is my blog…

    This is my blog on Wordle.