gird your loins
This a bas relief from Luca Della Robbia's 15th century workshop. Mary and Jesus are seen here under the view of both God as Father and God as the Holy…
the Word made flesh
This carving from the MET in New York is of a Madonna and child with a book on Mary's lap alongside Jesus. Jesus comes to us as the LOGOS or…
creativity
This art exhibition at Edge Gallery on friday night, January 3, will be my first opening in Denver's art scene. The gallery is on Navajo at 37th and is deep…
and then…
Freedom is incremental. They say that when an elephant is chained to a post, he will walk round and round in a circle, wearing a path in…
on the road again
Today, the dust is settling on a whirlwind of activity. We celebrated Christmas last night with 5,000 people in the cathedral. Watching so many people approach me to take…
Mary’s other song.
We are crashing into the darkness, this child and I! We are breaking darkness into shards of light which will toss and tumble throughout the cosmos and throughout history, forward…
waiting for the child
Children are vulnerable creatures. They are small and soft and defenseless, humans are. That God would place God's-self in such a precarious position Is an event which should cause us…
yes
In this medieval statue from a French cathedral, Jesus is not looking out at the viewer nor is he looking at Mary. He seems to be looking past her…
lightening up
This tryptic of Mary and Jesus with three attending angels is a small ivory piece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. it is about the size of…
touch
It is probably best that men do not pay much attention to how quickly the church would implode without women's strong, gentle leadership and hard work. There is nothing that…