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Visual meditations

Harry Clarke: Stations of the Cross

The windows’ colors and figures may seem fairy-tale-like, but on the via dolorosa there are no vanishing acts, no wands to wave, no magical elixirs.

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Thomas, Hannah Rose. 2018. 'Aisha'

TEARS OF GOLD

“The invisible light that radiates from the other”
 

Jonathan Evens interviews Hannah Rose Thomas

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NEWS SPRING 2024

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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

Year B, Proper 25

Here we see Bartimaeus, enclosed up to his neck in a dark brown and black outfit.

The mourning bands on the sleeves and the frayed edges testify to a handicapped life.

read more Kees de Kort: Bartimaeus