Category Archives: Arts

In the Dark time…a Light

As we move through a season of stark contradiction between the happy music in churches and the violence and horrific death in Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, and Sudan, between the fervent consumption of our marketplaces and the anxious cries emerging from our … Continue reading

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A Table for Marsh Chapel and Beyond

I have just completed the table that accompanies the lectern I wrote about earlier for the Boston University School of Theology. The folks I have been working with on this at the School are now assembling it for use in … Continue reading

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Grief and Love

An ocean of grief has overwhelmed us. It comes as an enveloping cloud, a flood, an avalanche, burying us, immobilizing us. We sit dazed each night before the television, trying to grasp each death among the thousands. We try to … Continue reading

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A Masked and Virtual Easter

From the isolation of our fears             you lead us out with everlasting arms of love. In the mask that shrouds you in death’s mystery             we see the revelation of redemptive care. The body wracked with pain and gasping … Continue reading

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