The only way out is through
Madelene Purdie, Stations of the Cross. Purdie, an Australian aboriginal artist, follows the minority convention of placing a resurrected Christ in a 15th panel When in seminary I had a New Testament professor who said something I will always remember. He said that of all the world’s religions he preferred Buddhism and Christianity because these [...]
Silence in the city
Zig, Christina’s World Exit 6. Usually it’s an article or event that inspires posts here at psnt.net, but this time it’s an image. This image, to be precise. The expansive silence of Wyeth’s original is here broken in brilliant fashion by the visual and aural clutter of a heavily traveled freeway. See more of Zig’s [...]
Why Eckhart matters
A woodcut of Meister Eckhart, provenance unknown. This image is featured on the cover of Bruce Milem’s book, The Unspoken Word: Negative Theology in Meister Eckhart’s German Sermons I’ve been reading a lot of Meister Eckhart lately. He was a Dominican friar, which means he was not a monk but a preacher (if you ever [...]
The darkness of God
Partial solar eclipse, 10 June 2002, Joshua Tree National Park, California. Sometimes the sun is eclipsed by a moon, you know I don’t see you when she walks in the room — U2, The Fly Today is All Saints Day. Today we Christian persons remember those good saints who have gone before us. In particular [...]
Back to Top | Comments Off
