Nathan A. Smith

Advent and the Future of Waiting

Nathan A. Smith encourages Christians to identify themselves with the waiting that is commemorated during the season of Advent.

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Brett David Potter

Recycled Images, Relational Aesthetics, and the Sound of Music

As Bruce Ellis Benson’s recent book Liturgy as a Way of Life reminds us, “in making art, we always start with something.”[1] To be an artist is not to create ex nihilo but to creatively reinterpret and rework the preexisting forms of art, nature, and culture—including the stories and images that shape and direct our […]

Aaron Darrisaw

What’s Black and White and “Red” All Over?

One would have had to be living under the proverbial rock to have somehow missed what’s been happening in the Middle East as of late.  But just in case that rock is your home, let’s get caught up to speed: 1) Protests in Egypt finally ousted President Mubarak from his 30 year reign, 2) Libyan […]

Barry Krammes, Christina Valentine

Diminutive Disasters Of Calamaties, Of Innocence, Of Passing, and Of Insanity

Barry Krammes’s work is reminiscent of the Old World, laden with stark bygones of stories that hold pain, suffering, and disaster. And yet, the meaning of these sculptural pieces of calamity, past, innocence, and insanity speak to each viewer in extraordinarily different ways.