September 2024 PlaylistNew albums: "Live On" by the Good Shepherd Collective and "Facing Eden" by Hope Newman KempApache Christ icon removed from mission church in New Mexico"The Bible in Photography" by Sheona Beaumont"Furtherance" video installation by Leonora Hamill ..read more

Selections from "Prayers of the Social Awakening" (1910 ..read more

"Found in Translation" concert with John Pfumojena and Delvyn CaseLost Welsh folk hymns uncovered and performed by Lleuwen SteffanChinese hymns by Lu Xiaomin"The Rock That Is Higher Than I" and "I'm Not Ashamed to Own My Lord""Cross Culture" album of worship songs from around the globe ..read more

Out of the living wordCome flower, serpent and bird.All things that swim or flyOr go upon the ground,All shapes that breath can cryInto the sinews of sound,That growth can make aboundIn the river of the eyeTill speech is three-plyAnd the truth triply wound.Out of the living wordCome flower, serpent and bird. This poem is from ..read more

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) of Amherst, Massachusetts, is one of America’s most celebrated poets. There are hundreds of musical settings, from various genres, of her poems. Here are ten I really like. (Search the archive: https://artandtheology.org/tag/emily-dickinson/) Created by Beach4Art, a family of four who assemble rocks and shells into images on the beaches of Devon, England ..read more

Sculpted by Lee Lawrie and painted and gilded by Léon-Victor Solon, "Wisdom, with Sound and Light" (1933) draws on Christian iconography of God as architect, and quotes Isaiah, to promote a humanist message ..read more

August Spotify PlaylistDeaths of theologian Jürgen Moltmann and singer-songwriter-activist Bernice Johnson ReagonPodcast interviews with theologian Wesley Vander Lugt on beauty and poet Malcolm Guite on imaginationSparkShorts "Self," "Float," and "Nona ..read more

Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold, Death’s great black wing scrapes the air, Misery gnaws to the bone. Why then do we not despair ..read more

VIRTUAL ARTIST’S TALK: “The Stations of the Resurrection according to John” with Laura James, July 30, 2024, 7:00–8:15 p.m. ET: Next Tuesday, Bronx-based artist Laura James will discuss her latest painting series, The Stations of the Resurrection according to John, in a live online conversation with patron Rita L. Houlihan. Register at the link above. The series began in 2021 with four paintings—Called by Name, Jesus Commissions Mary Magdalene, Mary Magdalene Proclaims Resurrection!, and Pentecost: Jesus Sends Them Out, collectively the Mary Magdalene and the Risen Jesus series (which you can ..read more

Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859–1937), The Thankful Poor, 1894. Oil on canvas, 35 1/2 × 44 1/4 in. (90.2 × 112.4 cm). Collection of the Art Bridges Foundation, Bentonville, Arkansas. Momma used to sayThat when Jesus turned theLoaves and fishInto a picnicFor those hungry folksIn the wildernessThe God blessed victualsTasted like mouth wateringMississippi catfishDeep fried in the best store bought mealServed with a healthy side helpingOf iron skillet cornbread—Bread so fine thatNo one asked for butter or honeyAnd nary a crumb hit the ground.She grew up an orphanIn the Great Depression,Where ..read more