The claim that music has a significant role in human culture is not in need of defense as it is so obviously true. But what exactly that role is or perhaps better what the scope of that role may be ar...Read More
If you were to provide a narrative about the life and music of Bach you might expect that some comment would be made about the composer’s faith. I attended a concert that featured the music of Johan...Read More
The subject of poetry has been haunting me for some time. I want to read more poetry, better understand its importance, engage its insights, and discern why it is so much a part of the fabric o...Read More
To see the world through Yisa Akinbolaji’s sensibility is to see it particularized through an array of emotions articulated in a play of light, color and form. Each work is realized with restrai...Read More
We are in a time where questions of origin are common. Science probes the universe in search of beginnings, while culture critics look afresh at how the creative impulse and imagination shape the...Read More
What I offer here is not the regular article with a sustained focus – but rather a collage of bits and pieces – fragments if you will – consisting of things that caught my attention in one w...Read More
For a couple of years it was as sculpture that no one wanted. It was turned down by two prominent Catholic churches. Earlier this year Regis College was offered the sculpture and accepted it where...Read More
Author: Alan Jacobs Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005 Though widely known for his writings on apologetics, less known for his academic work on medieval literature and his philosophical debates, L...Read More
His reputation was mixed, for some he was thought to be outdated, populist, and theologically naïve, while others saw him as articulate, imaginative and both philosophically and theologically ast...Read More
For well over a decade there has been an increasing momentum on works exploring the links between theology and the arts. Jazz is one of the themes that continues to show up in these conversation...Read More