Alan Dean Artist Blogs

  • My African American History Museum

    by Alan Shariff
    "I am unknown to most people as an artist today, but I have been creating my artwork since the mid-1970s. Early in my art career, I had the honor o...

  • The Power of Impression

    by Alan Shariff
    The Power of Impression As an artist, I understand that the key to art is the power of impression. In the beginning, God created the heavens and th...

  • The Last Day

    by Alan Shariff
    When I look at the United States today, I see a country on a collision course with self-destruction that is subject to drag the entire world down w...

  • The Light Of Moral Intelligence

    by Alan Shariff
    When I look up words related to morals, these words came up, ethical, good, right, honest, decent, proper, honorable, just, and principles. When I ...

  • What is righteousness? Part 1 Abraham, the father of religion

    by Alan Shariff
    When we have a virus on our computer, or it fails to operate correctly, we all know to go to system restore and reset our computer back to a date b...

  • What is Religion, part 2

    by Alan Shariff
    Everyone was born into this world knowing nothing, and we had to accept what was told to us as the truth. However, God has given each of us the abi...

  • What is religion? Part 1

    by Alan Shariff
    The atheists say that each religion claims that they are right and that all the other religions are wrong. The atheists also say that each religion...

  • What is Heaven?

    by Alan Shariff
    It is not enough to believe in God you must also believe in God's promise to be a believer. God promises that those who believe in Him alone, the l...

  • From the darkness into the light

    by Alan Shariff
    In my previous post, The Forbidden Fruit, I discussed the first significant test that the believers failed from God that condemned us and the count...

  • What is Culture

    by Alan Shariff
    As an artist, I consider myself to be in the business of culture, which I understand to be growth and development, not the business of making money...

  • The Forbidden Fruit

    by Alan Shariff
    Two significant tests from God failed in recent times that if God-fearing people had passed, I believe God would have blessed the United States to ...