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Love: The final ingredient

The Knowledge Series by Rondall Reynoso consists of a row of white wooden boxes with painted tops in shades of red that drip over the sides. Knowledge Series, 2004

Heath Veuleman’s powerful article “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” got me thinking about so many different things. One of the main issues though ties into some artwork I began working on in 2003. …

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After the storm, opening our eyes

Arial View of Tornado Damage in Alabama

The sound of a train barreling over our bedroom woke us. “Do you hear that?” my wife and I asked each other simultaneously. Outside the window, the sky was illumined by lightning so frequent that …

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This is how we pray today

Sadness Crying Cry Crying Man Sad Tears

The poem, some say, has been given to us for times when prose cannot express the heart. It’s an art form that has been used to elevate, to devastate, and to strike mood. It can …

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Sodom and the sin of the Church

A painting by John Martin of Lot's family fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah

Is the church and America guilty of the sin of Sodom? Wow! What a provocative question. Given the political culture in the USA right now, the mind automatically goes to issues like same-sex marriage and …

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To those who knock

In this dusk long exposure image taken in De Queen, AK, several old buildings with brick facades sit on the side of a street with streaked headlights of cars on the roads.

It was May of 2014 and I was staying Memorial Day weekend at All Saints of America Orthodox Church in De Queen, AR. I woke up early Saturday morning to take a day trip. I …

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Facts are stubborn things

Pelham's engraving of the Boston Massacre showing soldiers firing into a crowd.

Private Hugh White stamped his feet and rubbed his hands together to warm them in the blistering cold of a March evening in Boston. Snow blanketed the ground around the Custom House he was tasked …

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