[Editor’s Note: This series on The Saint John’s Bible comes to a close with a conversation with Fr Michael Patella, OSB, Chair of the Committee on the Illumination and Text of The Saint John’s Bible. Associate Editor Karen McClain Kiefer had an…
[Editor’s Note: Our series on The Saint John’s Bible nears its end with the final of three Visio Divina Advent reflections on illuminations at the beginning of the Gospels of John, Matthew, and Luke. This week, Jonathan Homrighausen reflects on the…
The traditional popular Christmas film is typically full of holiday joy and good cheer, as exemplified by enduring classics like the musical White Christmas, the madcap silliness of Elf, or the syrupy sentiment of Love, Actually. To be clear, I…
[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 of the Gospels of John, Matthew and Luke. This week, Emilie Grosvenor reflects on the frontispiece…
‘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; but I think I’m in good company because all art is deception and so is nature’.…
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 masterpiece, Four Quartets, takes place in four distinct rural settings, each demonstrating how Eliot engaged with his…
[Editor’s Note: In week five of our series on The Saint John’s Bible, we mark the beginning of Advent with the first of three Visio Divina reflections on the frontispiece illuminations for the Gospels of John, Matthew, and Luke. For…
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 on Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time. In Our Time is one of BBC Radio 4’s most well-known programmes, featuring lively academic discussions…
Over the past year, my transition from the car horns and sirens of Philadelphia to the call of seagulls in St Andrews has put me in a contemplative mindset to scribble ideas about the importance of faith and how it…