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January 2014

January 27, 2014

The Eternal Melody: Mendelssohn and Bonhoeffer

The following is a guest post by Josh de Keijzer. Josh is a Ph.D. Candidate...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Kierkegaard and Evangelicalism at the American Academy of Religion

Like numerous other religion and theology scholars, I'm preparing for the American Academy of Religion...

November 06, 2013

A Dispatch from the World Council of Churches

My friend and colleague, Christian Collins Winn (Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Bethel...

October 2013

October 22, 2013

Jesus, Millstones, and the “Little Ones”

I've been spending time in Matthew 18 today. I've been deeply impressed with a sense...

October 16, 2013

Hard Work

Here is the sixth in a lovely list of ten lessons essential for every high school graduate...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

What’s Your “Madonna Moment?”

Paul Tillich, one of the most significant theologians of culture, tells of a moment in...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

You Can Always Go On

One of the more interesting resources on the Internet is the collected interviews at Paris...

April 23, 2013

Death, Wine, & Cheese

The artist exists in an awkward relationship to her audience. She labors for many months,...

April 16, 2013

The Idolatry of the Penultimate

What do looking at paintings have to do with what most evangelicals understand by "engaging,"...

April 10, 2013

Free Won’t

Philosopher extraordinaire Alvin Plantinga offers a trenchant review of new atheist Sam Harris' latest book, Free...

April 09, 2013

God’s Grace & Grammatical Violence: A Meditation on Jonah 4:1-4

In February I offered a reflection on Jonah 4: 1-4 at a chapel at Knox...

April 02, 2013

Life and Death in the Artist’s Studio

In a few weeks I'll be participating in the sixth annual Mockingbird Conference in New...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Go in Peace: A Holy Week Meditation on Vocation

The confrontation between Elisha and Naamen in 2 Kings 5 is one of the more provocative...

March 20, 2013

Space

A painting is not its interpretation. At the moment it encounters me in the art museum,...

March 13, 2013

A Man Had Two Sons

Envy is as old as humanity itself. In the first utterance of the word sin...

March 12, 2013

“You Will Make Bells & I Will Paint Icons”

Rublev Fasts Andrei Tarkovsky's epic film, The Passion of Andrei Rublev (1966) is a Lenten...

March 05, 2013

The Poetry of an Erased de Kooning

One of the more notorious and inexplicable works of art of the last sixty...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

The Futility of Painting

Yesterday my review of a new monograph on the Spanish realist painter Antonio López...

February 21, 2013

Vocation and the Artist’s Studio

Last week I was in Pittsburgh to speak on modern art and grace at the...

February 11, 2013

Cézanne, Inventing Abstraction, and the Glen East Workshop

One post on the paintings of Paul Cézanne's is not enough and so I explored...

February 05, 2013

Free to Receive

Let's face it. Evangelicals are a pretty grumpy lot when it comes to the arts...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Sur le motif: The Paintings of Paul Cézanne

Last week, after finishing Alex Danchev's stunning biography, Cézanne: A Life (Pantheon, 2012), I...

January 23, 2013

Area Codes

Whenever I call someone with Caller ID (which would be everybody these days), they'll see my...

January 21, 2013

The Poetics (and Theology) of Painting

Last week I concluded a four-part series over at Good Letters, the blog of IMAGE...

January 15, 2013

Theology & the Arts

Over the last few months, Christopher Brewer has devoted several blog posts to my theological...

January 11, 2013

Why I Teach (With Help From Parker Palmer)

I'm back in the teaching game after a sabbatical. In some ways, it's hard to...

January 08, 2013

In Memoriam

Robyn O'Neil, Hell (2009-2011) This time of year brings the remembrance of those whom we...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Larks that Cannot Sing: The Work of Claudia Alvarez

Claudia Alvarez, Flower Girl, ceramic, 2011 Art is like a magnet, attracting, collecting, and accumulating...

December 24, 2012

An Advent Meditation with Gabriel Orozco

In my day job as curator of LIBERATE, the online resource ministry of Tullian...

December 21, 2012

“Holy Innocents” and the Birth of Jesus

Jesus was born into a world of violence. A world where demented people kill innocent...