Modern-day ‘Old Master’: Painter depicts African-Americans as Bible characters
Called, 2019, Oil on canvas. Photos/Courtesy of Tyler Ballon By Pamela A. Lewis The term “Old Master” painters always brings the well-known heavy hitters to mind: Rembrandt, Giotto, da Vinci, Dürer, and Mantegna, who are on the long list of European men (and a few women) who, between the 13th and…
Bellini’s painting technique embodies Franciscan values
Bellini’s “Saint Francis in Ecstasy” is in the Frick Collection, New York. Image/Wikimedia Commons By Dennis Raverty Giovanni Bellini’s “Saint Francis in Ecstasy,” in the collection of the Frick Museum in New York, embodies both the Franciscan sense of poverty and its attitude towards nature, not only in the style and…
Finding ‘Sacred Ground’: Thousands connect with Episcopal Church’s film-based series on racism’s historic roots
Jenny Fife introduces Sacred Ground to the discussion circle that Fife formed at St. John’s Church in Roanoke, Va. Photo/courtesy of Jenny Fife By David Paulsen
, Episcopal News Service When protests against racial injustice erupted nationwide in late spring, the dioceses of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Western New York invited Episcopalians to…
Vacation Bible schools, camps, youth trips on hold for summer
Campers and counselors in Minnesota pose in 2019. Photo/courtesy of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Nine-year-old Caleb Barnett of Edina, Minn., wasn’t the only one getting a bit teary in May when he reluctantly reached for his 2020 calendar and crossed off Christian camp, cancelled because of…
No Justice, No Peace: A Christian Sociological Reflection on Race in the USA
The Rev. Guy Hewitt By Guy Hewitt “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” Often, people don’t appreciate the complexity of a situation while in it. For Trinity Sunday, I want to speak…
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s statement on President Donald Trump’s use of St. John’s, Holy Bible
The following is a statement from Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry: This evening, the President of the United States stood in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, lifted up a bible, and had pictures of himself taken. In so doing, he used a church building and the Holy Bible for partisan political purposes. This…
