Category: Books
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
God and Wonder
Jeffrey W. Barbeau & Emily Hunter McGowin, editors. Cascade Books, 2022. 202 pp The editors are theology professors at Wheaton College and this collection of essays consists of papers from the fin... Read More
Rembrandt is in the Wind
Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith Russ Ramsey, Zondervan, 2022 (210 pp) The opening chapter of this fine book offers a brief reflection on goodness, truth and ... Read More
Intersections
Working at an intersection carries its risks and dangers. The intersection at which I am engaged is where art and faith meet. It will be no surprise if I tell you that these two deeply human realities... Read More
Pandemic Pages
The changing patterns of life have in recent days opened up – for many of us – new possibilities for how we employ our time. With less written in our calendars and more time at home we are drawn b... Read More
Original Prin
You have to love something to satirize it well and we are lucky that Randy Boyagoda loves a lot of things: family life, the Catholic Church, multi-cultural Toronto, university teaching and… pickle b... Read More
Being Human
In our time the question of what it means to be human is under close scrutiny. This is partly because of the development of AI and the extraordinary advances in technology on this front. We now speak ... Read More