Is Art Necessary?
… That instinct was at work 17,000 years ago in the artisans of Lascaux who decorated the walls of the caves with images which move us still today. Among theorists as well as ordinary folk who e... Read More
Poet – Richard Wilbur
b. March 1, 1921 Now at 90 years of age in his latest volume of poems Anterooms, Wilbur takes time to reflect on human mortality. The following excerpt is taken from an article by Canadian scholar Dav... Read More
Theatre – Kim’s Convenience
Ins Choi, actor, playwright, has appeared in 2000 Candles (The Arts Engine), Double Bill (Soulpepper), Hamlet (Stratford), From the manger to the cross (spoken word artist). His first full-length play... Read More
Skin Boat – Acts of Faith & Other Navigations
– John Terpstra – Gaspereau Press 2009, pp. 155 It’s sensuous, it’s earthy, it’s a pleasure- and that’s just this book’s textured cover flap and rich paper. But the contents of t... Read More
God Is: My Search for Faith in a Secular World
David Adams Richards, Anchor Canada, 2009 pp. 166. This award winning Canadian author is best known for his fiction work, The Friends of Meagre Fortune and Mercy Among the Children. While questions ... Read More
Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
– Marilyn Chandler McEntyre – Eerdmans, 2009, pp 234. Language serves to bind us into human community as it carries and communicates our values and beliefs. When those values and beliefs... Read More
Artist – Sharon Tiessen
Hope of Glory. Series. Ceramic, recycled glass, found metal inclusions As a visual artist and musician, the arts have been, for me, the main forum for the working through of such questions as faith, i... Read More
As You Like It
“… Though imagination may well open a window to the transcendent it is not the only portal that imagination can take us through.” Time spent with artists and with writings on the art... Read More