Category: Arts

From Ashes to Beauty

From Ashes to Beauty

“Moses saw that the bush was on fire, but it was not burning up.” (Ex 3:2) Then, that fire of God’s Spirit began to burn on in Moses to free God’s people and bring them to a new land. This is God’s way. Recently another devastating summer bushfire came close to where I live when more than 2000 Ha (5000 acres) […]

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(Photo by Disney )

Lewis, Disney, and Stories

I’m listening through C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra. If you haven’t yet taken in this work, here’s a bit of necessary summary: The protagonist Ransom is transported to the planet Venus, upon which God has just created the progenitors of another human race in our own day. Satan is also present via the person (or at least the body) of the antagonist […]

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Archaeologists discover ancient church and temple in Egypt

Archaeologists discover ancient church and temple in Egypt

Archaeologists unearth monks’ cells and churches with biblical inscriptions dating back to the early Coptic era. Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the remains of Christian ruins in Egypt’s Western Desert, revealing monastic life in the region in the fifth century AD according to the Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The church was built in the ruins of the Roman […]

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Abdoulaye Konaté, A Great Contemporary African Artist of his Time

Abdoulaye Konaté, A Great Contemporary African Artist of his Time

Abdoulaye Konaté, born in Diré, Mali in 1953, studied painting at the Institut National des Arts in Bamako and then the Institut Supérieur des Arts, Havana, Cuba, where he lived for seven years before returning to Mali. Abdoulaye Konaté is a Malian artist who combines hanging, assembly, dyeing and sculpture to achieve high recall and strong presence in space. With […]

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Theorizing the Relation of Religion and the Arts

Theorizing the Relation of Religion and the Arts

I have recently worked in a number of related areas in the study of religion, completing several articles and a book focusing on a reconsideration of the philosophy of religion, especially through a reconsideration of the relationship of religion and art. These articles concern a very broad reappraisal of the academic study of religion. However, growing from this is a […]

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