I am an Episcopal Priest, an artist, and a writer who lives in Columbus, Ohio. I serve as the Rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, on the Ohio State University Campus. I am a Contemplative Christian, and that tradition is reflected in my art and writing. As an artist, I am very influenced by Medieval manuscript art, and by the Rothschild Canticles in particular. If you are interested in purchasing any of the art presented on this site, please send me an email.
Laments & Honest Complaint
Featured Image Credit: Kathe Kollwitz, “The Widow,” print, 1921 On Sunday, we continued to write laments in the style of the ancient Israelites. As I said in the last post, the genre of Biblical lament has five basic parts: invocation; honest complaint; expressions of confidence; petition; and praise. In today’s post, I’ll talk about honest…
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Laments & Invocations
This Lent we are writing laments, as many of us feel that the entire world is lamenting, crying out to God in pain, uncertainty, and suffering. We are studying lament as a Biblical genre, and shaping our own lamenting to fit that genre. Trying to write in a poetic form that emerged in a very…
Keep readingTransfiguration, Days of Insurrection
by KPB Stevens We four climbed the mountain, and He was changed,changed like the flaws made by freezeand thaw as it cracks the walls of a church,since change breaks all that we struggle to contain.Change is raw, it weeps and seeps and breaksthe load-bearing law, and brings us, the remaining three,to creep on painful knees.…
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