Luminous Transportations, installation by Jo Yarrington, Marquand Chapel, Yale Divinity School
Category Archives: Religion
October 15, 2008 – 12:09 pm
Inspirational speaker Nicole Johnson uses my book, Churches, to deliver a powerful message of hope for everyone who feels invisible and taken for granted. I don’t know Nicole, but what she took away from Churches and how she brought the lessons of the Gothic cathedral builders to bear on today’s problems, blew me away. Watch, [...]
Painting as Prayer: Interview with Father John Giuliani
July 5, 2004 – 10:31 pm
After reading Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain while an art student at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, John Giuliani’s life changed. He put down his paintbrush, entered the seminary, and served as a diocesan priest for two decades. Inflamed with the desire to communicate the dignity of all persons, especially those whom society has marginalized, he began [...]
Mario Botto Interview Excerpts
April 15, 2003 – 10:22 pm
To celebrate Mario Botta’s 60th birthday on April 1, here are some gems culled from his comments during our Lugano interview in March 2000. The excerpts are from Churches, HarperCollins, 2001. To quote you, dear Mario, “architecture lasts more than the life of man. This is the measure of a man’s life and his mark.” [...]
Why We Need Churches
September 19, 2001 – 10:19 pm
“God is dead,” wrote Nietzsche, famously, in 1882. Less well known is the rest of his sentence, which continues, “but considering the state the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which His shadow will be shown.” In the wake of events that were, by every human measure, incomprehensible, [...]