Introduction
CLAY TABLET CREATIVE is a business cover for the creative services offered by Scot Lahaie. Professor Lahaie's creative endeavors include book publication, creative consulting, instruction in the performing arts, playwrighting, screenwriting, script doctoring, and writing workshops.
Why the name Clay Tablet?
The name Clay Tablet is drawn from the book of Ezekiel (4:1-3) in which the prophet Ezekiel is commanded by God to take a large clay tablet and draw on it a map of the city of Jerusalem, showing it in a state of siege. He was to build a wall around the tablet with an "enemy camp" laying siege with toy ramps and battering rams. All this and more was done as a demonstrative (and quite theatrical) warning to the people of Israel.
In like fashion, I am called to demonstrate across multiple communication platforms (our modern clay tablet) a decisive call to turn away from the Culture Wars that divide us and return to the greatness of purpose for which God has called us. We are NOT, at present, a United States of America. Indeed, we are a divided people, calling to mind Lincoln's famed aphorism that "a house divided against itself cannot stand." It is this cultural division that I feel called to address most strongly.
In like fashion, I am called to demonstrate across multiple communication platforms (our modern clay tablet) a decisive call to turn away from the Culture Wars that divide us and return to the greatness of purpose for which God has called us. We are NOT, at present, a United States of America. Indeed, we are a divided people, calling to mind Lincoln's famed aphorism that "a house divided against itself cannot stand." It is this cultural division that I feel called to address most strongly.
EZEKIEL 4:1-3
A Sign of the Coming Siege
1 And now, son of man, take a large clay tablet and set it down in front of you. Then draw a map of the city of Jerusalem on it.
2 Show the city under siege. Build a wall around it so no one can escape. Set up the enemy camp, and surround the city with siege ramps and battering rams.
3 Then take an iron griddle and place it between you and the city. Turn toward the city and demonstrate how harsh the siege will be against Jerusalem. This will be a warning to the people of Israel.
1 And now, son of man, take a large clay tablet and set it down in front of you. Then draw a map of the city of Jerusalem on it.
2 Show the city under siege. Build a wall around it so no one can escape. Set up the enemy camp, and surround the city with siege ramps and battering rams.
3 Then take an iron griddle and place it between you and the city. Turn toward the city and demonstrate how harsh the siege will be against Jerusalem. This will be a warning to the people of Israel.
A House Divided
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.
--Excerpt from A House Divided Speech, Abraham Lincoln
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.
--Excerpt from A House Divided Speech, Abraham Lincoln
Scot Lahaie
Scot Lahaie is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, artist, and university professor. More information about Professor Lahaie's work as a playwright can be found online at www.ScotLahaie.com.