Coleridge: Catholic Jon Fosse’s Nobel, Bill Watterson’s Mysteries, and Sufjan Stevens’s Faith Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Art History In Washington, D.C., the Catholic Art Institute will host a Christmas tour of the National Gallery on Dec... Read More...
Coleridge: Christina Rossetti’s Anglo-Catholicism, Chichester’s new workshop for liturgical art, and Cormac McCarthy’s contemptus mundi Coleridge is a monthly digest of significant developments in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Music In “Spiritual Renewal and Modern Choral Music,” Michael De Sapio praises the work of American composer ... Read More...
Does Everything Happen for a Reason? By Jonathan Mitchican As I grew up in the 1990s, few hours of television were as sacrosanct to me as Quantum Leap. I was already a lover of science fiction and fantasy thanks to Star Trek and comic books, bu... Read More...
Coleridge: Rowan Williams on the Bible and Poetry; Taylor Swift and Catharism; the Lives of Virgil and Andrei Rublev Coleridge is a monthly digest of significant developments in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Art Andrey Rublev: The Artist and His World, a biography by Robin Milner-Gulland of “the greatest painter of ... Read More...
Coleridge: Shane McCrae’s and Wes Anderson’s Episcopal Faith; Pynchon as America’s Theologian; and Bach’s Boundless Abundance Coleridge is a monthly digest of significant developments in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Poetry Wyatt Mason profiles the acclaimed poet and practicing Episcopalian Shane McCrae on the occasion of hi... Read More...
The Dangers of Subculture By Sarah Puryear The recent Amazon Prime documentary Shiny Happy People is a devastating and incisive examination of the form of Christianity followed by the Duggar family and millions of other fundamentalis... Read More...
John Goodenough, Nobel Laureate and Witness to Grace By Jeffrey M. Kirk There was an interesting obituary June 27 in The New York Times: “John Goodenough, Who Changed World with Lithium Ions, Dies at 100.” Robert D. McFadden wrote: A devoted Episcopalian, Dr.... Read More...
Coleridge: Against False beauty, Raphael’s Inner Gentleness, and the First Poet-priestess By Ben Lima Coleridge is a regular survey of artistic efforts to engage with the beauty of truth and splendor of form, and of the church’s reception and interpretation of these artworks (See yesterday’s intr... Read More...
