This piece was written as a personal testimony as to how we can use scripture to liberate us from mental and physical bondage. Through the Eyes of the Beholder is dedicated to all of us who struggle with insec ...

It was the cover that caught my attention. Rolling hills of farmland in lush green and yellow. So simple, yet so attractive. It was the cover that caught my attention. Rolling hil ...

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Last week, I read this quote by John Piper: "...the weeping of the saints at the loss of precious souls is, paradoxically, the weeping of joy in God." I believe that is what God wants for me and fo ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/my-advent-calendar"></a></p> <p>When I opened the sixth window on the Advent calendar, a very traditional Christian picture greeted ...

<p>The word "plastic" means "anything which can be easily shaped or sculpted" (actually, an even older meaning is "sculptor") The word " ...

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<p>The day after Thanksgiving, thousands of Americans head for the shopping malls for a ritual known as Black Friday, called such as it's a day when many retailers move from the red (losses) into th ...

<p><a href="http://www.callandresponse.com"></a></p> Last week two films were released that present propagandized visions of the Unite ...

<p>Last week was a busy one, getting the blog switched over from Beliefnet to our own Web site. Sharp-eyed readers have noticed a few bugs, but since we're over the hump I thought a little Friday fu ...

Kimberly Burge Finding God in theater. Prelude: Live theater first enraptured me with a burst through the ...

Rose Marie Berger It's very complicated to have hope. Whenever I see a photograph by Sebastião Salgado, I ...

Kimberly Burge A journalist's portrait of a pandemic. Wearing a fierce gaze and his "HIV POSITIVE&qu ...

Kim Szeto The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Earth recently launched the Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative, starting with ...

Rose Marie Berger Bewilderment is not momentary confusion. It is becoming fundamentally displaced. Every once ...

Roger Brooks Two articles in the November 2006 issue overlook a powerful old means of communication that is being rediscovered—face-to-fac ...

Molly Marsh Storytelling in the digital age. There are many ways to share a story. My favorites involve what ...

The Editors Films to watch out for. In Dear Francis students from Dallas Baptist University, Swazil ...

Danny Duncan Collum Who will control the stories we tell-and who gets to see them? Film in America—whether H ...

Donovan Jacobs Maybe a single film can't change the world, but put a social action campaign behind it and you have the seeds of a mov ...

Danny Duncan Collum 'Prairie Home Companion' hits prime time. A national public radio network began ...

Betty Spackman The difference between messaging the truth - and being messengers of the truth. Faith, accordin ...

Tom Montgomery-Fate Author Marilynne Robinson explores the sacredness of the everyday world. Marilynne Robinso ...

Robert Roth Love binds and builds, heals and hallows, redeems and restores. Love binds and builds, heals and h ...

Rose Marie Berger An Artist Who 'Did Something.' Thank you for the insightful articl ...

Emily Russell These paintings were part of an exposition held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was no ordinary exposition. ...

Kate Bowman In Image and Spirit, author and artist Karen Stone recounts comments she overheard in a modern art museum one November day: ...

Betty LaDuke Mexico's tradition of revolutionary murals continues in Chiapas. Visitors to the highland co ...

Jo Ann Heydron I avoid movies with car chases and wish more television heroes were not both handsome and single. In my reading, however, I ...

Karen E. Aldrich THANK YOU, Don Michael Hudson, for an intelligent, well-thought-through article ("Reading the World," March-Apr ...

Rose Marie Berger The Motor City may never lack for drama, but until the Mosaic Youth Theatre came along there were few opportunities for ...

Rose Marie Berger Kate Bowman For too long civic participation in the arts has been vie ...

Rose Marie Berger Kate Bowman For years activists have called attention to the plight o ...

Rose Marie Berger The Gallery at the American Bible Society in New York City recently presented "Reflections on Glass: 20th Century S ...

Virginia Maksymowicz Sometimes the best art isn't at all beautiful. AS A SCULPTOR, college professor, a ...

Don Michael Hudson Art, Beauty, and the voice of God. And what of beauty? Six years ago, as a 37-year-old Am ...

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler Worshippers at St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, ...

Kimberly Burge Artists speak the language of the heart. Almost immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks, sever ...

Betty LaDuke In Eritrea, an American painter finds friends, suffering, and inspiration. I first came to Eritre ...

Linda-Marie Delloff A national study documents what many congregations already knew—that the arts are good for faith, and faith can be goo ...

Rose Marie Berger Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church's new building demonstrates how architecture can incarnate the history, stre ...

Larry Bellinger "Art has the power to heal spiritual, emotional, and physical brokenness." 'Mom ...

Julie Polter Artist Barry Moser's new illustrated Bible shows that the people of scripture---and books themselves---are very much ali ...

Bronwyn Shiffer Women's project leads to transformation. Evelyn came in at 9 a.m., all smiles and ready t ...

Julie Polter Artists and believers have something to talk about. Art can get messy—even in the absence of elep ...

Rose Marie Berger The spiritual vision of Vincent Van Gogh, Georgia O'Keefe, and Andy Warhol. I don’t usu ...

Scott Robinson Rita Dove balances creative solitude with a public vocation. Rita Dove is a woman who does not ...

Kari Jo Verhulst The power of God in the creative vocation. At the beginning of God's creating of th ...

Daniel Berrigan Tools (Joseph speaks) Tools (Joseph speaks) To be a part of things, ...