[EDITOR’S NOTE: Our month-long series on The Art of Church Architecture draws to a close with Series Editor Ewan Bowlby’s poignant piece on reconciliation reflected in post-war church architecture. We hope you have enjoyed this series. For more information, see…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Ewan Bowlby launches our series on The Art of Church Architecture with this introduction. You may see the associated first piece in the series, originally posted in late 2019, here: Charlemagne in Chartres: Looking at Stained Glass.] As…
It is fitting to write a reflection on the idiosyncratic artwork of Pieter Jansz Saenredam from the peculiar comfort of Martyrs Kirk library in St Andrews, especially in the year that marks the five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.…
Over the past decade or so, I’ve begun to steep myself in some of the ancient rhythms and rituals of the Church. I have taken to incorporating disciplines like the Sabbath, silence and solitude and fasting into my regular life…
Thomas P. Rausch. Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology: Toward Recovering an Eschatological Imagination. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2012, xvii + 169 pp., £13.31 paperback. With this latest addition to his ever-growing corpus, Thomas P. Rausch SJ, T. Marie Chilton Professor of…
Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a series by Naomi Billingsley, who will be writing on reflections on art at Chichester Cathedral. Chichester Cathedral is famed for its modern art – especially the prominent commissions of the…
Several years ago, when our oldest daughter was just three, we visited the Art Institute of Chicago. Our visit to the museum capped off a wonderful summer day that we had spent primarily strolling along the river and through the…
In the midst of Holy Week, as we enter into the dramatic triduum of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, it is worth pausing for a moment to reconsider what all this is for. What have the crucifixion of…
On December 18, 1963, while visiting the campus of Western Michigan University, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke these famous words: “We must face the fact that in America, the church is still the most segregated major institution…