Tag: Art

• Art wakes us up to the world

  Just about every day I walk by McMichael Academic Building on our college’s campus where the art program is housed. Typically, I am running late for a meeting, racing to beat the chimes tolling on the top of Wallace Hall with my nose pressed to my smartphone to make sure I don’t miss a single […]

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  June 9, 2017

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  Art, art and religion, Janis Mars Wunderlich, Mary Oliver, sacred art, The purpose of art

• Let Me See–A Baccalaureate Sermon

  What follows is my Baccalaureate sermon delivered to Monmouth College’s graduating class on May 14th, 2016.  It is based on Mark 10: 46-52.   It’s funny, I find myself getting increasingly sentimental at graduation. Every year I am up on that Commencement platform crying over the cheesiest things. Like, tomorrow, you girls will walk across the […]

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  May 15, 2016

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  Art, baccalaureate, Bartimaeus, Class of 2016, Flannery O’Connor, I Once Was Blind but Now I See, Mark 10: 46-52, Monmouth College, preaching, Sermon, We have to see the world as it is before we can turn it into art

• The Artist and the Art: A Theological Relationship

  Sometimes, when I feel creatively dry, I venture over to our college’s art gallery in search of inspiration. Yesterday morning I made this excursion with Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Essential Writings tucked under my arm. Upon entering the gallery I paused first to scan through the binder that held the resumes and statements of the artists. […]

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  October 16, 2015

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  Abraham Joshua Heschel, Art, Creativity, God as Creator, God needs, Stephanie Baugh, Theology