Lisboa: A Figural Reading for a Crippled Church By Trent Pettit Slaves were brought from Africa to work in mines soon after gold was discovered in the backlands of Brazil. The discovery of gold made inland settlements possible for the first time around t... Read More...
A Northern Nativity By Cole Hartin William Kurelek (1927-77) was a Canadian artist and author who spent much of the second half of his anguished life grappling with Catholicism. His is not likely a name that would be familiar t... Read More...
A Test of Faith By Ben Lima The Massacre of the Innocents is a test of faith. Taking place in the midst of the Christmas story, Herod the Great’s vain attempt to do away with the threat to his reign by killing all the baby boys in Bethlehem is an unavoidable obstacle to th... Read More...
In the Beginning Was the Word: A Reflection in Two Images By Pamela A. Lewis Two days before the shattering events of January 6 in Washington, D.C., I became aware of a painting called In the Beginning Was the Word, by the German artist Hermann Otto Hoyer (1893-196... Read More...
The Christmas Story in Stone – The Nativity Façade of The Sagrada Familia By Zac Koons Antoni Gaudi’s dream was to create a Bible out of stone, a dream that became — actually, is still becoming — the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, the most ambitious piece of Christian architectu... Read More...
The Color of the Godhead Is It Time to Remove Images of the White Jesus From Churches? By Pamela A. Lewis "So tell me," began the tastefully dressed, middle-aged woman, to whom I had just been introduced at a church social event, "how does it feel to be a Black person who attends ... Read More...
Women in the Bible Retreat Our meeting with God will be in four modes and three moods over four days.
