The Seraphim Through the Eyes of Isaiah
One of the more familiar stories from the Hebrew Bible comes from the ‘Call of Isaiah’ in Isaiah 6. The lines ‘Woe is me!’,…
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Waiting on the Word: George Herbert’s ‘Christmas (I)’
Editor’s Note: For our second Advent reflection on Malcolm Guite’s, Waiting on the Word (Canterbury Press, 2015), Nayeli Riano reflects upon George Herbert’s ‘Christian (I)’ and…
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Waiting on the Word: John Donne’s ‘Annunciation’
Editor’s Note: For our first Advent reflection on Malcolm Guite’s, Waiting on the Word (Canterbury Press, 2015), Kimberley Anderson engages with John Donne’s sonnet, ‘Annunciation’. Perhaps…
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Waiting on the Word: A Reflective Symposium
Our current inability to contemplate the breadth and depth of any social, political or theological issue is the result of our perceived necessity for…
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Review: Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture
Maria Pia Di Bella and James Elkins, editors, Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture, Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies 4…
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Achtung Baby: How to Live in an Age of Distraction
When a monk asks you a question, it’s generally wise to listen. I learned this lesson on my annual silent retreat at the monastery…
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Review: Ethics and Images of Pain
Asbjørn Grønstad and Henrik Gustafsson, editors, Ethics and Images of Pain, Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies 1 (London: Routledge, 2012), xxiii +…
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Album Review: Fragile Hands
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our…
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Movement and Location in the Church Space: Pieter Jansz Saenredam, his paintings, and an “ambulatory imagination”
It is fitting to write a reflection on the idiosyncratic artwork of Pieter Jansz Saenredam from the peculiar comfort of Martyrs Kirk library in…
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