The Spirit and Pentecost

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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

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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 Mother Tongue

“Poetry is the mother tongue of the human race.” – J.G. Hamann (1730–1788) How do we negotiate our way through the difficult terrain of an uncertain world? The unsettling realities of cont... Read More

The Call of Advent

Advent is easily missed, lost in the fog of our consumerist culture that draws us to focus on Christmas and hurry our way to celebration. Feasting, celebration and gifts are fitting human expressions ... Read More

Intersections

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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

Beauty and Brokenness

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  Our Hosts Drawing on the Japanese art of Kintsugi, our journey to Easter will provide us a unique opportunity to explore the gift and value of our scars and how our wounds enable us to be more ... Read More

The Self Portrait

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The self-portrait is a well-established tradition in Western art. Though it flourished in the Renaissance an age when the individual was a focus of attention it didn’t begin there. The self-portrait... Read More

Lenten Reflections

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Join us on March 24, at 7pm for Lenten Reflections: an evening of poetry, music and visual art at St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, in Hamilton. Featuring: Bethany Kenyon, John Terpstra, D.S. M... Read More

Beauty and Reform

Though we hear much of secularism’s influence on our culture, efforts to keep religious sensibilities at bay seem futile. We cannot for long live comfortably with such absence. The human spirit beco... Read More