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Posted on May 13, 2019 by Victoria Emily Jones
The Gospel Coalition Arts & Culture editor Brett McCracken has rounded up fourteen arts professionals to each choose an artistically and theologically significant painting and write about it in 200 words or less.
Read MoreMy initial response to the controversy.
Written by: Revd Jonathan Evens, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
The blogger Archbishop Cranmer asks the question, ‘How does a crucified stormtrooper glorify God?’ As I see value in exhibiting Ryan Callanan’s ‘Crucified Stormtrooper’ in a church, when he does not, he goes on to assume and assert that I cannot have pondered the question of what this artwork is actually saying about God’s unique sacrifice and the ultimate source of salvation.
Read MoreI was honoured and surprised when Revd Jonathan Evens invited me to curate a ‘Stations of the Cross’ Group Exhibition at St. Stephen Walbrook, a Christopher Wren church based in the heart of the city of London.
I was not surprised when members of the congregation started to complain, and journalists and photographers stormed in as the stormtrooper was ordered out!
Read MoreAn argument for the Church to engage with controversial art.
Written by: Revd Jonathan Evens
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
The engagement of the Church with contemporary art, from Post-Impressionism to the present day, has often been contentious and contested but has nevertheless been a continuing relationship.
Read MoreBy The Revd Canon Dr Stephen Evans, Rector of St Marylebone, London, NW1 5LT
It is really good, for a second year, to be able to welcome Art Below’s Stations of the Cross exhibition to St Marylebone Parish Church.
For centuries, the Stations of the Cross have provided Christians with a tangible way of entering into the journey of Christ…
Read MoreThe subjects of the picture are all friends and contemporaries of the artist, and are depicted as the Apostles with Pentecostal flames hovering above them. The reflective surface allows the viewer to appear to be part of the group in an extraordinary and thought-provoking way.
Read MoreINTERVIEWER: Do you believe in God?
ANTHONY MICALLEF: I used to.
INTERVIEWER: You used to?
ANTHONY MICALLEF: I’ve been brought up Catholic so I have a huge, I feel guilty if I say no which I guess is what they intended.
Read MoreBy The Revd Canon Dr Stephen Evans, Rector of St Marylebone, London, NW1 5LT
It is a great privilege to be able to host ArtBelow’s Stations of the Cross exhibition at St Marylebone Parish Church through the days of Lent this year (2014). Ever since Christians have been making pilgrimages to Jerusalem, men and woman have walked in the footsteps of Christ along the Way of the Cross…
Read MoreNicholas Cranfield on a church and Tube exhibition in London
Church Times, Posted: 28 Mar 2014
CHRISTIANITY arguably began as an underground movement. Now a London parish church has taken the Christian message of Good Friday on to the Underground.
Read MoreINTERVIEWER: So, do you believe in God?
NANCY FOUTS: No.
INTERVIEWER: No? What do you believe in if not got God?
NANCY FOUTS: I believe you’re going to die?
INTERVIEWER: So you believe in death?
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