More black pits, less glowing cottages
Daniel Siedell is one of the very best writers working at the intersection of theology and art today. His recent piece on the “Dark Light of Thomas Kinkade” is brilliant […]
Tag Archives: art and theology
Two upcoming conferences on theology and art
I thought I’d mention two upcoming conferences (with attendant calls for papers!) that may interest readers of this blog: First off, the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at […]
Goodbye, January
There are a couple of things I’m participating in over the next little while which I thought I’d mention “in passing”: “Zips” Revisited This Wednesday, I’ll be speaking at the […]
Seeing and Savouring
At the moment I am working on a paper about theological and ecclesiological aesthesis – the way our physical and spiritual “senses” are involved in seeing, hearing, touching and tasting […]
Going down the road
With lots of essays and articles (plus a whole lot of pre-baby house re-decorating!) on the go, I haven’t been so faithful in my blog upkeep. However, I did in […]
Compostela
As fall approaches, one of the biggest things on my plate is “Compostela,” a video installation I am working on for this year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (October 1 – mark […]
More reasons to learn German
As the fall approaches, it’s time for an extremely familiar ritual – course selection. Due to some scheduling, it looks like I am back to my original plan of taking […]
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
It’s a line from a Leonard Cohen song about the apocalyptic future, but quite frankly it also describes this largely unrelated bunch of links (not to mention my headspace at […]
Art, faith, J.J. Abrams
For those of you with a little time to spare, an article I wrote called “Finding Our Way: Art, Faith and Mission” has been published in the latest issue of […]
World without people
When I used to go on family trips as a kid, I never took photos with actual people in them. My formal purism was absolute: in the frame there were […]
