The homepage of writer, artist, and priest Karl Stevens.
Welcome!
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.
“Happy are they who wash their robes so as to have free access to the tree of life.” – The Revelation to St. John Eve ate with tiny teeth, the seeds like gravel in her mouth, and sweet.You are naked said the syrup when sliding down her throat.Take my leaves, said the tree, and learn…
I’ve started working large, and taking days to make a painting. This is the first in a projected series of seven paintings that I hope to show at St. Stephen’s in Lent, 2027.
I watched my master beat my daughterbecause she folded the napkins wrong.Somehow he didn’t mind that they were spatteredwith her blood and had to be washed again. Perfection was his excuse for looking at her in a certain way,and I knew he hid his waiting in the violence,that it was a rehearsal for a rape.When…