Homeless Jesus rejected by two churches
April 15, 2013
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A Toronto artist is trying to find a home for his sculpture of Jesus as a homeless person. The
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The Testament of Mary
April 5, 2013
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Colm Tobin’s one woman show explores the life of the mother of Jesus, before the layers of piety defined her image for the church. The Rev. Jon Richardson reviews the play.
Tiffany’s religious art on display
December 7, 2012
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An exhibit of the religious art of Louis C. Tiffany gives a glimpse into an era when houses of worship were built in growing American cities.
When bad art happens to good religion
November 16, 2012
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Lori Erikson asks if there is any good in bad religious art.
One down, 65 to go.
September 14, 2012
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Women at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Mesa, AZ, painstakingly painted and wrote in calligraphy the pages of Genesis in an ambitious “scriptorium” project led by parishioner and medieval-art enthusiast Lee Kitts.
Christ Church Ponte Vedra creates innovative school for the arts
June 16, 2012
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Christ Church in Ponte Vedra, Florida has created an arts school open to anyone in the community, offering at a nominal cost instrumental and vocal
Marilynne Robinson: literature as evangelism
June 4, 2012
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I have read and loved a lot of literature about religion and religious experience—Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flannery O’Connor, the Bible—but it’s only with Robinson that I have actually felt what it must be like to live with a sense of the divine.
The peculiar popularity of Thomas Kinkade
April 16, 2012
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Kinkade sold a great many of these feelings through some curious approaches to painting and a shrewd business distribution system. Critics easily dismissed his paintings as kitsch, poor art, or perhaps not even art at all. While I don’t really like Kinkade’s paintings, I believe it would be naïve to simply dismiss his work, to stop querying the deeper reasons for its mass appeal.
The Grand Miracle by Mary Karr
April 6, 2012
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Jesus wound up with his body nailed to a tree—
a torment he practically begged for,
or at least did nothing to stop. Pilate
watched the crowd go thumbs down …
Observing Good Friday
April 6, 2012
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How are you observing Good Friday? Tell us in the comments.
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