The first image is from a moralized Bible from the 13th century. The cosmic Christ acts as midwife for himself, the Jesus on the cross, who gives birth to the church through the spear wound in his side. The second image is Caravaggio's painting of Saint Thomas, who was absent when the resurrected Jesus first … Continue reading Two Images of the Wounds of Christ
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Maundy Thursday
My parents moved to Malaysia at the start of my sophomore year of college, and our connection to the small Wisconsin town where I’d gone to high school was severed. I had never made connections to any place for long. My dad was a United Methodist minister, and we moved every six or seven years. … Continue reading Maundy Thursday
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 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
KPB Stevens 