“The God of the universe - the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and e-minor, loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing, love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.” ~ Francis Chan [Large Pine, c.1905 - Paul Cezanne]
• Chan, senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, Calif., offers a radical call for evangelicals to consider and emulate in this debut guide to living “crazy” for God. Chan’s own life compels him to live with urgency, and with good reason. His mother died giving birth to him, his stepmother died when he was nine, and his dad when he was 12. As a pastor, Chan says that conducting weekly funerals for people younger than himself has likewise sobered him to life’s unexpectedness and frailty. More: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781434768513
• Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. More: https://www.paul-cezanne.org/biography.html
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Émile Zola [Painter at Work, Paul Cézanne]
• Émile Zola (1840-1902), French activist, critic, and author of many works influential in the naturalism literary school including his series of twenty novels written between 1871 and 1893 that follow the Rougon Macquart family starting with The Fortune of the Rougons (1871). More: http://www.online-literature.com/emile-zola/
• Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is known as both a French impressionist and one of the founders of modern art. He worked during a time when concept of painting out in the air in natural light was just becoming popular. More: http://www.thefamousartists.com/paul-cezanne/painter-at-work