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Visual meditations

The Nativity for All People

Even before Mary and Joseph are depicted at the manger, we have Roman carvings of Jesus tightly wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger, attended by an ox and an ass. 

read more Unknown artist: Nativity, c. 1550 - c. 1600

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Brian Whelan

Paul Chandler and Brian Whelan

WHITE ROBE: An exhibition celebrating the life of Rev. Dr John Roberts among Native Americans
 
by Jonathan Evens

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read more Tim Joyner: Incarnation, 2021

Art and Music

Peter S. Smith and Duke Special

I am black and white
I am color
I am risk
I am mother
I am holy
I’m disaster

read morePeter S. Smith: Some One Else detail

Art and Poetry

Ernst Barlach: The Reunion of Christ and Thomas, detail

Denise Levertov & Ernst Barlach

People so tuned
can't open to symbol's power
unless convinced of its ground,
its roots in bone and blood.
We must feel the pulse in the wound to believe that 'with God all things are possible.'

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Christian calendar

Advent - Care for the Earth

Mary holds up a globe threatened by environmental disasters, in the format of an apple.

Jesus turns his head away and holds on tightly to his comfort blanket. 

read more Frans Franciscus: Sick Child / The Eighth Work of Mercy