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Continue reading →: New Beginnings in Christian ArtIn all cultural traditions, the world over, spring is a time of new beginnings. In the southern hemisphere, however, spring is half a year away from the international festival we know as Easter. So this spring I am going to feature something different: Christian art that celebrates the beginning of the…
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Continue reading →: Weaving a circle of gratitudeThe following ritual comes from “Finding God in the Singing River” by Mark I Wallace. I practice something similar myself, though adapted for my own context here in Australia.
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Continue reading →: Praying with Saint Basil: Confessing Our Poor Treatment of AnimalThe following prayer is attributed to Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, who lived from 330AD-379AD. It is a prayer of confession, for the ways we’ve fallen short in our treatment of animals, and of request, for a more God aligned awareness. The Earth is the Lord’s and the…
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Continue reading →: Celebrating spring with Julian of NorwichBe a gardener. Dig a ditch, toil and sweat, and turn the earth upside down and seek the deepness and water the plants in time. Continue this labor and make sweet floods to run and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink and carry it to…
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Continue reading →: Praying by the light of the moon“Veiled Mother of the World” by Nicholas Roerich THE MOON From the Carmina Gadelica In name of the Holy Spirit of grace, In name of the Father of the City of peace, In name of Jesus who took death off us, Oh! in name of the Three who shield us…
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Continue reading →: The book of DeerThis illustration of the four gospel writers comes from the Book of Deer, the earliest surviving example of Gaelic literature from Scotland. The Book of Deer is an illuminated Christian text, similar to the Book of Kells. It is named after the monastery of Deer and contains portions of the…
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Continue reading →: Revisiting the beasts of RevelationI have been exploring Christian art based on the book of Revelation this weekend and, in the process of revisiting the text, I’ve been struck with how the two horned beast, the one that is given the number 666, is distinctly subordinate to both the seven headed dragon and the…
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