Truly Unconventional Christmas Films for the Bleak Midwinter
The traditional popular Christmas film is typically full of holiday joy and good cheer, as exemplified by enduring classics like the musical White Christmas,…
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A Tree of Light and Remembrance: A Menorah for Christmas (Matthew 1:1-17)
[Editor’s Note: We continue our series on The Saint John’s Bible with the second of three visio divina Advent reflections on illuminations at the beginning…
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‘The Gods are Here, Invisible, Mischievous, and Meddling’: Vladimir Nabokov and the Presence of God in John 19
‘I used to be a little conjuror when I was a boy. I loved doing simple tricks—turning water into wine, that kind of thing;…
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Time and Faith within the Urban and the Rural, Part 2
After last week looking at the importance of the city in T. S. Eliot’s poetry, we now turn to the rural context. Eliot’s final…
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Hope Through the Centuries
In late November 2018, Prof. Judith Wolfe, Professor of Philosophical Theology and Programme Director of ITIA’s M.Litt. in Theology & the Arts, was a guest…
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Ink, Quill, and Goal
[Editor’s Note: Midway through our eight-week series on The Saint John’s Bible, Anne Kaese muses on The Saint John’s Bible as a calligrapher who helps…
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Singing with Madam Jazz: A Conversation with Micheal O’Siadhail
In one of his many essays on Milton, Northrop Frye defines the epic poem as a ‘special kind’ of narrative poem that does more…
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Making and Reflecting in Community: Three Artists Discuss the Power of Residency
Creating art and engaging in spiritual reflection are often solitary pursuits. Nevertheless, for the past five years, three American artists have assembled for an…
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Garden, Geometry, and Lectio Divina in the Song of Solomon of The Saint John’s Bible
[Editor’s Note: In the second part of our eight-week series on The Saint John’s Bible, Jonathan Homrighausen, author of Illuminating Justice: The Ethical Imagination…
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