On the American indie music scene, the past ten or fifteen years have seen a rash of singer-songwriters—male, white, thirty-something—making dark, lovely, lyrical, disturbing,…
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It is perhaps one of the more immediately striking partnerships in the history of music. On one side we have Tuomas Holopainen, pianist and…
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Expressing his desire to paint a crucifixion scene, Édouard Manet once heralded the depth and power of the cross as a symbol: “The Crucifixion,…
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In the midst of expositing the doctrine of Creation that takes up the third volume of his Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth addresses das Nichtige:…
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When Gadamer directed his attention to the topic of beauty in his celebrated 1977 essay The Relevance of the Beautiful, he was turning back…
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The shepherd’s brow, fronting forked lightning, owns The horror and the havoc and the glory Of it…. —G. M. Hopkins, ‘The Shepherd’s Brow,’ 1918….
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So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Gen 1:27, NIV) God created the…
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This is the second of a three-part collaborative series featuring the poetry of Gerald St. Maur and the photography of Rev. Thomas Brauer. Mother Mary…
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As we enter into Holy Week, it is easy to fall into the patterns of remembrance, repentance, and expectation, leading up to the great…
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