To bring the story of a powerful but flawed woman who loves and follows Jesus, students must confront many deep questions including “Do you want to go have a beer with this guy?”
Alison Flood in The Guardian: He enraged America’s religious right with his portrayal of God as a senile old man in the His Dark Materials
October brings a new work from the prominent artist. It hews closely to the text in some ways, while in others it casts a light on unseen corners of the Genesis story.
There are two remarkable things about Marilynne Robinson, who won the Orange Prize for fiction: she’s a very good writer, and she’s a very serious Christian. Her two most recent novels. Gilead and Home, have retold the story of the Prodigal Son from different viewpoints, set in a small town on the Iowa prairie in 1956.
Rowan LeCompte, who has spent his working life creating the stained glass windows at the Cathedral, was interviewed over the weekend by NPR. LeCompte, now 84 is finishing what he expects will be his last window to be installed.
As an artist, you are invited to weave together the threads of your personal and our communal story to create a compelling and hope-filled image, or series of images, that will express the meaning and application of Ubuntu in a way that awakens a new awareness of mission and in a way that invites and challenges your viewers to action.
Episcopal Church and Visual Arts announces that C. Robin Janning will be Editor in Chief for the ECVA blog Image & Spirit. Image & Spirit
Elizabeth Alexander: Say it plain, that many have died for this day. Sing the names of the dead who brought us here, who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges, picked the cotton and the lettuce, built brick by brick the glittering edifices they would then keep clean and work inside of.
Thirty-one artists contribute works of self-expression to the latest exhibition, Portraits of the Self, launched on the Episcopal Church & Visual Arts website this month. It is the first exhibit of 2008 and the 25th on the Episcopal artists’ website since the organization was inaugurated in 2000.
A new painting of St. George by highly regarded artist Scott Norwood Witts, which depicts the saint as a man of compassion rather than a crusader, is to be unveiled at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. George, Southwark, to mark the saint’s day next week.