The Art of Reflection: Thoughts on Advent and New Year
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart –Luke 2:19 The emergence of an ending can often usher in…
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Reflections on Art at Chichester Cathedral: Two takes on the Baptism of Christ
Chichester Cathedral houses two 20th paintings of the Baptism of Christ[1]: one by Hans Feibusch (1951/77) in the Baptistery, the other by Patrick Procktor…
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The Sacramental Nature of Aesthetic Phenomenon
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final installment of a series by Jim McCullough that will look at the ways in which art…
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Review: Making Good
Trevor Hart, Making Good: Creation, Creativity, and Artistry. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014. Vi+368pp. $59.95. The convergence between theology, imagination & the arts is…
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The Imagination between Beauty and Goodness
In Visual Faith, William Dyrness entertains two questions concerning the uncomfortable, and at times awkward, relationship between beauty and goodness. The first: “Do pursuits…
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The Sound of Silence and the Silence of Sound: On Having Ears to Hear
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening. People writing songs that…
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Review: Re-Approaching Gregory of Nyssa
Hans Boersma, Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa: An Anagogical Approach. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Edited by Gillian Clark and Andrew Louth. Oxford: Oxford…
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Artist in Residence Series: Culture Care for Churches
Culture Care is the vision of culture as an ecosystem and the call to consider our stewardship of this ecosystem. Recently, as I have developed Culture…
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Artist in Residence Series: Art and Hospitality
I often paint in order to know/see what I feel. Sometimes what I feel is not only impossible to say, but also seemingly impossible to…
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