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Art & Faith Matters: June 2016
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Celebrating our creative and living God by generating art and architecture resources for congregations and individuals. What We Can Do for You. Sunday, June 26, 2016. He Sent How Many? But we might think of the number in a larger context. The population of the city of Rome during the time of Augustus (he of the census in Luke's gospel) has been estimated at 1,250,000. 1.25 million. What does a million look like? The composition of the silkscreen print below is made of a million dots. Their mission field ...
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Art & Faith Matters: Rachel Continues to Weep
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Celebrating our creative and living God by generating art and architecture resources for congregations and individuals. What We Can Do for You. Sunday, December 25, 2016. Rachel Continues to Weep. How many times is that idea re-enacted in the world? Kathe Kollwitz. Frau mit Totem Kind (Woman with dead child) 1903, 7th state, soft-ground etching and engraving with green and gold wash. Massacre of the innocents. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Get Art&Faith Matters.Delivered! Art&Faith Matters provides...
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Art & Faith Matters: December 2015
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Celebrating our creative and living God by generating art and architecture resources for congregations and individuals. What We Can Do for You. Sunday, December 27, 2015. It's an old art history trivia question that speaks to the gospel reading for Christmas 2C (John 1:1-18). Here's the set up: in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, we know that God's right hand reaches out to the newly created Adam. (Detail below.) Here's the question: where is God's left hand and arm? And, actually what is it? Will be the...
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Art & Faith Matters: November 2015
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Celebrating our creative and living God by generating art and architecture resources for congregations and individuals. What We Can Do for You. Sunday, November 29, 2015. To be sure, the point of the prophetic passage is that the people understand that God is about to (re)enter their lives and a way must be made for that. In the case of Jesus, God will make the way with the incarnation. But the metaphor is that of a road. And roads, whether by God or by humans, must still be built. Realism refused to ide...
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Art & Faith Matters: October 2015
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Celebrating our creative and living God by generating art and architecture resources for congregations and individuals. What We Can Do for You. Sunday, October 25, 2015. A View of All Saints. Kandinsky. All Saints I. 1911. Munich: Lenbachhaus Gallery. (Left) Oil on canvas. (Right) Reverse glass painting. Left) Kandinsky. All Saints Day II. 1911. Lenbachhaus Gallery. Oil on canvas. (Right) Kandinsky. All Saints II. 1911. Lenbachhaus Gallery. Reverse glass painting. ...Monday, October 19, 2015. Jesus heals...
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Art & Faith Matters: Journeying Toward Jesus
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Celebrating our creative and living God by generating art and architecture resources for congregations and individuals. What We Can Do for You. Sunday, January 1, 2017. Where Mary sits in the Roman-arched doorway with baby Jesus on her lap. The goal of the magi was to find the king who had been born. They knew of the king and set out on the journey. They did not know the destination but trusted they would find him. And they did. Were they dreamers? Top) Sassetta. Journey of the Magi. This week's Art&Fait...
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Art & Faith Matters: January 2017
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Celebrating our creative and living God by generating art and architecture resources for congregations and individuals. What We Can Do for You. Sunday, January 29, 2017. The Epiphany 5A reading from Hebrew scripture is pretty direct. Isaiah 58:1-12 is a conversation between God and the nation. God: Go ahead. Tell the people what is wrong with how they are living. They keep saying to me, People: "We fast, but you aren't looking. Why should we humble ourselves if you aren't going to notice.". The Beatitude...
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Art & Faith Matters: November 2016
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Celebrating our creative and living God by generating art and architecture resources for congregations and individuals. What We Can Do for You. Sunday, November 27, 2016. Because in reality, Hicks was not living in a peaceable place at all. In his paintings, there are inclusions of and allusions to the non-peaceable world in which he lived. Hicks shows us how hard it is to conjure Isaiah's vision when we live in the world that we do. Can you put them in order? In the later Kingdoms the viewers' first imp...
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