The homepage of writer, artist, and priest Karl Stevens.
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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.
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.…
The fish is in the sea and the sea is in the fish, so that every muscle, every organ, floats in brine.I breathe in the chill, right air of the morning and oxygen binds into molecules, unites my body to the world.Beloved, by what element does my soul gather in the divine? What part of…
I see my reflection in the polished gold of my gift,like a priest staring down into a chalice.I shine from the side of the scrolled box,and looking at myself is like looking at the sky,at the part of me that lives above,always close to the goodness of God,always trying to choose, with me,good thoughts, good…