Category Archives: art

Good Friday, The Suffering Servant and The Saint John’s Bible

Today, Good Friday, I awoke thinking about the passage in Isaiah commonly called “The Suffering Servant.” It is a long passage, so here is just an excerpt: He was spurned and avoided by people,a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity,one of those from whom … Continue reading

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Art in the Provinces

My father just wrote to me to say how much he enjoyed Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street. He thought I might find something in common with the main character, a librarian from St. Paul who marries a doctor from Gopher Prairie … Continue reading

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NYC

I think there’s a very high probability that March 17 will be the best day this year. We’ve just come back from a vacation to South Jersey, where we had great visits with two of my childhood friends and then … Continue reading

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Herzog

It’s still winter, and the house is still under construction, so it was a great time for a Werner Herzog film festival! I’ve been really engaged thinking about the whole nature-mankind-culture-Romantic-Classical paradigm, too, and so wanted to go back and … Continue reading

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Video Links

Last weekend Gary Louris and Mark Olson performed two shows in Minneapolis. Long ago they were the heart of the Jayhawks, a Minneapolis band at the center of the Americana scene. Mark Olson left the band, that struggled and never … Continue reading

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Simon and Garfunkel

I don’t know why MPR insists on playing Marketplace Money on Sunday night at 5 p.m., when I’m always making dinner and could go for a good show, like This American Life, or a Best of Fresh Air, or almost … Continue reading

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Other Artist Friends, pt. 2

Oliver Smith is another artist friend of mine. He lives in Atlanta and his birthday is also June 27, like Susan Mastrangelo’s. In my opinion, people born between June 23 and June 30 are often particularly creative. I met Oliver … Continue reading

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Other Artist Friends, pt. 1

I want to post links to the work of two other artist friends who are very dear to me. One, Susan Mastrangelo, lives in Brooklyn and teaches art at The Buckley School on the Upper East Side. She has made … Continue reading

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Jan Richardson, artist and writer

I’m adding a blog called The Painted Prayerbook to my blog list. It’s written and illustrated by Jan Richardson. This is one of her collages at left, called “All Souls.” She lives in Florida and is an ordained Methodist minister, … Continue reading

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Thomas Carey, OSB

These past two days as communications director at St. Benedict’s monastery I’ve gotten a crash course in Sister Thomas Carey, a painter and Sister of this monastery who died in 1999. Her work is amazing, and I was familiar with … Continue reading

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