Author: ogami
Trinity Bach Project
TRINITY BACH PROJECT Opening Doors to Bach. Opening Doors with Bach. Created by Louise and Chris Friesen and Nicholas Nicolaidis, Trinity Bach Project is an eight-voice vocal and instrumental ens... Read More
Marc Chagall and the Bible
Through attending various arts gatherings over my years with IMAGO I have been able to meet many who are active in the world of faith and the arts. Sandra Bowden was one of those I met and her very fi... Read More
The Spirit and Pentecost
Recently it was Pentecost Sunday and the Christian calendar is always a good prompt to reflection. Often I think about the relationship between the Holy Spirit and the arts. Here I can only take up a ... Read More
A Word About Hope
The philosopher Immanuel Kant is known for highlighting three questions humans ask: What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope for? This third question has received much less attention than ... Read More
The Scandal of Holiness
The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints Jessica Hooten Wilson, Brazos Press, 2022 (208 pp) The invitation of good literature is to surrender ourselves to a... Read More
Fruits of the Spirit
Fruits of the Spirit: Art from the Heart —National Gallery of London UK For some time now there have been signs that the barriers between religion and art are coming down. In the last issue of the n... Read More
Contemporary Art and the Church
W. David O. Taylor and Taylor Worley, Editors, IVP 2017 (229 pp) This is an excellent collection of presentations given at a CIVA conference which I was privileged to attend. I include it here as one ... Read More
Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves
Imagining Our Neighbours as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy Mary W. McCampbell Fortress Press, 2022. 193 pp “Hate is a failure of imagination” So begins the Introduction of this engaging work dr... Read More