Seven Stanzas at Easter
Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall. It was not as the flowers, each soft Spring…
What do you do?
Somewhere along the way (was it 2nd grade?) we started to get the idea that big books, books of consequence, didn’t have pictures. Dismayed, we accepted the burden of plodding through the rest of our typeset lives. Thankfully, author Alain…
Picturing Easter
Easter Sunrise Service at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Michael Rougier, 1955. All week we’ve been working with the idea of how to visually represent Easter. The explorations led in many different directions before ending with these, various Easter scenes from around the…
Three Kinds of Men, by C.S. Lewis
"There are three kinds of people in the world. The first class is of those who live simply for their own sake and pleasure, regarding Man and Nature as so much raw material to be cut up into whatever shape…
Doug Burr, The Shawl
Signed copies of The Shawl, Doug Burr’s third album, will be available at All Saints this Sunday. But first, please allow me a story: In January 2008 Martha and I spent a few days in northern California to celebrate of…
Josh Welker at CRL – Opening Reception this Saturday
The Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin presents Terrain, an exhibition showcasing the work of three designers and eight studio artists completing their Master of Fine Arts degrees. Terrain features the work of…
I don’t watch TV. Except when I do.
Ah, television. It’s like a box of friends in my living room. Friends who love me unconditionally, require no effort, never (or rarely) judge, and (perhaps most importantly) are always awake. Running ceaselessly (it’s still going even when it’s turned…