"We shall not always plant while others reap." This is the first line of Countee Cullen's poem "From the Dark Tower." I first read the poem last year, during the election and after having been active in the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Cullen wrote the poem at the height of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. The … Continue reading From the Dark Tower

Encountering scripture in the company of artists and authors. You can join the Bible study in person on Tuesdays at 1:00 PM in the EASE Gallery at Saint Stephen's, 30 W. Woodruff Avenue.  Or you can enjoy it here.  Please feel free to comment if you'd like. We've been doing about two chapters of the … Continue reading The Image and the Word Bible Study: The Beatitudes

Here are poems and painting that I've collected to accompany our study of the Gospel of Matthew. William Drummond's "For the Baptist," to accompany Matthew 3:1-10 John the Baptist's preaching isn't given much love by contemporary poets.  In fact, I had to go all the way back to the 17th century to find a poet … Continue reading The Image and the Word Bible Study: Matthew 3-4

I wanted a way of reading the Bible in the company of artists and poets, of paying attention to their commentary on scripture.  I couldn't find any one book that did this, so I decided to start collecting resources here.  We hold a weekly Bible study in the EASE Gallery, and today we'll be looking … Continue reading The Image and the Word Bible Study: Matthew 1-2

When I was a young man, I had a fantasy that when I became an adult, really became an adult, I would have everything all figured out.  That the insecurity of trial and error would go away, and I’d know what to do and what not to do about any situation that might arise.  It … Continue reading The Fancy of Self, The Imagination of God