On a handful of occasions, a work of art has riveted my attention. As a college student, a painting in the Butler Museum of Art titled In Flanders Fields Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow by Robert Vonnoh had that effect as I pondered young girls picking scarlet red poppies in what had once been a […]
Rembrandt
Beyond Ordinary and Proper
“There is something wrong with you,” she said, her face twisting in genuine disbelief and horror. “You are crazy.” I laughed, but comments like these were starting to get to me. At work, I’ve been sharing more and more about what my life in the city is like. By this I mean telling the fun […]
Lenten Preparations: A Time of Contrition
As you prepare for Lent, meditate upon (and share with a friend) these words from C.S. Lewis’ Miserable Offenders: An Interpretation of Prayer Book Language: The Lenten season is devoted especially to what the theologians call contrition, and so every day in Lent a prayer is said in which we ask God to give us […]