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Visual meditations
Jan Mankes: Row of Trees
Dutch artist Jan Mankes´ credo was, ‘Art is giving expression to spiritual life. Since the purely spiritual, the ineffable, cannot be named, material things are used to do so.’
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Interview with Peter Koenig
by Jonathan Evens
Koenig's practice demonstrates that the way to avoid blandness in religious art is immersion in Scripture.
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2020
List of exhibitions in galleries, museums and churches.
Plus a list of conferences, lectures and events, with a special focus on Europe.
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Christian calendar
Reformation Day: Luther and Durer
by Barbara Pitkin
In light of Luther’s views on the primacy of the gospel the logic of the arrangement of these four apostles is easily grasped.
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Materials for Churches
Materials for Churches
Here you find materials for use in churches, categorized according to the Christian calendar.
There are also materials about the Old and New Testament.
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Denmark: Enghøj Church in Randers
It is especially remarkable how Henning Larsen elaborates on the Danish tradition of a symmetrical white church with tower, while giving this a totally new interpretation.
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Art and Poetry
Luci Shaw & Sebastian Wien
How?
How shall we sing the Lord’s songs
in a strange land? The old rhythms,
the melodies of praise, strangle
in our throats and the words
fall to the ground like leaves in autumn.
Art and Music
Paul Field & Betty Spackman
The Hollow Hotel
I checked in to the Hollow Hotel
Halfway to heaven,
Halfway to Hell
Don’t know how long I’ll stay here
But that’s the way things go
Here in the Hollow Hotel
In the Spotlight
ArtLyst Interview Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker
By Jonathan Evens
It is the limiting of Christian art to only religious themes that I would suggest is not Christian art at its best. Then art becomes dualistic, flowing from a dualistic theology.
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