It's a week early to be thinking about Easter, but I created this poster for our campus ministry to use during the Easter season, and thought I'd share it now. I'm using the faces of friends and loved ones in these images, sometimes, as in this one, standing in for the figure of Christ. But … Continue reading Christ plays in ten thousand places
Author: KPB Stevens
At the Memorial Service
Last night I went to a memorial service at the Newman Center, for Brittany and Courtney, two students who died in a car wreck on their way back to campus at the end of Spring Break. The Newman Center is a very modern church building, with big abstract stained glass windows and a large video … Continue reading At the Memorial Service
Sketch of the Sacrifice of Isaac
Here's an image of the Sacrifice of Isaac, that I'll possibly turn into something more imposing. It's very derivative - it started just as a sketch of the same scene as depicted on the Klosterneuburg Altar, this magnificent piece of church art from the twelfth century that I learned about in my Art History class … Continue reading Sketch of the Sacrifice of Isaac
Sketch of a poem, written at Procter Center while looking out the chapel window at the lake
Winter white on the moving water, reflected not only from the snow, but the trees, the day, the surrounding weeks - the world is bleached. My grandmother made everything clean. She ate wall paper paste when a refugee with two small children in tow, and everywhere was trampled snow. Later her hands always smelled of … Continue reading Sketch of a poem, written at Procter Center while looking out the chapel window at the lake
Words, Science, and Religion
Rick Searle, on his blog Utopia and Dystopia recently posted on Giordono Bruno, burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church in 1600 for speculation about the possibility of there being a plurality of worlds. I liked Rick's post a lot, and wrote this response: Your piece made me think about how I use science … Continue reading Words, Science, and Religion
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