Death, Art and Christian Worship
byIn a week marked by Halloween and All Saints Day, it seems very appropriate to write about death. Over the last few weeks, I…
In a week marked by Halloween and All Saints Day, it seems very appropriate to write about death. Over the last few weeks, I…
It’s certainly a strange phenomenon that all artists, poets, musicians, painters are unfortunate in the material sense — even the happy ones…That rakes up…
We often hear people say that they don’t know much about art, but they know what they like. In truth, what they are really…
The honor of being commissioned to illumine The Four Holy Gospels came directly from Lane Dennis, the founder of Crossway Publishing. “No single artist…
In The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis spins a yarn in which denizens of hell are given a bus-trip to the lowlands of heaven…
Juliet Benner, Contemplative Vision: A Guide to Christian Art and Prayer (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2011). In this delightful book, Juliet Benner brings together…
A reflection on one way that discerning the extraordinary in the ordinary is exemplified in Christian painting, old and new. Examples are shown from Sandro Botticelli, Roger van der Weyden, Stanley Spencer, Patti Wickman, and Joel Sheesely.