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Aaron Rosen

Aaron Rosen is executive director of The Clemente Course in the Humanities and founder/director of The Parsonage Gallery. His latest book is What Would Jesus See?

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Tom Gick Portrait of the artist’s grandmother

At the start of the last century, plenty of artists claimed to be mystics....
August 16, 2023
Michael Petry's sculptures
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Images from Michael Petry’s Gifts of Apollo (top) and At the Foot of the Gods (bottom)

What happens to old gods? As fantasy writers from Neil Gaiman to George R. R....
April 21, 2023
a mostly melted candle burning against a dark background
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Staying awake for Easter

What ritual remedies exist to sharpen our spiritual attention, focus, and clarity?
April 5, 2023
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Antonio McAfee’s  Afternoon of the Deluge (Ocean) and Evening of the Deluge (Standing on Water)

Antonio McAfee’s art addresses the complexity of representa­tion, especially of African Ameri­cans, through restless formal experimentation....
November 10, 2022
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Strange Histories series, original 35 mm slide collages (2013–present), by Ian Trask

I grew up hearing the whir, flutter, and occasional clunk of my father’s slide projector in the dining room as he practiced lectures about his latest medical research....
May 19, 2022
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Room 200 (2020), by Jesse Albrecht

Jesse Albrecht is at home with unsettling thoughts....
May 6, 2022
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From Hemosapien series, by Jordan Eagles

Jordan Eagles isn’t the first modern artist to work with blood. But he stands out for his sustained, scrupulous attention to its possibilities as a medium....
January 27, 2022
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Well (stereoscopic installation, loop, 2017), by Arent Weevers

Arent Weevers is a Dutch pastor and grief counselor as well as an artist, and the images he creates speak to deep experiences of loss and vulnerability. He comments on his work:...
September 30, 2021
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Koson Door, by Gol Kamra (Dua Abbas and Jahanzeb Haroon)

Jahanzeb Haroon and Dua Abbas are a husband-and-wife duo based in Lahore, Pakistan....
July 29, 2021
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Laquan McDonald (from the series In the Wake), by Jared Thorne

Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager, was walking away from Chicago police in 2014 when he was shot 16 times by an officer, who was later convicted of murder on the basis of video footage suppressed b...
June 10, 2021

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Sublunary Embrace, by Alyssa Coffin

One morning this autumn my brother woke to ash falling from the sky outside his window in Montana. He leapt out of bed, worried that his apartment building was on fire. It wasn’t....
April 9, 2021
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Ten Commandments and a Question, by Joel Silverstein

Joel Silverstein’s paintings can be deadly serious and deeply funny, often at the same time....
February 11, 2021
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Sentinel VIII | Sentinel IX | Sentinel XII, by Aude Hérail Jäger

"More great than human, now, and more August, / New deified she from her fires does rise.” John Dryden wrote these optimistic words in 1666, in his poem Annus Mirabilis (The year of wonder...
December 17, 2020
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Mosaic for Central Reform Congregation, St. Louis, Missouri, by Siona Benjamin

Siona Benjamin’s images shimmer with jewel-toned depictions of goddesses, angels, historical figures, and anonymous immigrants....
October 21, 2020
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The Space between the Choice, by Anjet van Linge

Anjet van Linge is an expert at remaining still. She and her husband manage a small working farm in the remote north of the Netherlands, along the North Sea....
September 2, 2020
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Last Scapegoat—A Requiem, by Alfonse Borysewicz

Catholic painter Alfonse Borysewicz often takes inspiration from scriptural passages and liturgical rites....
July 2, 2020

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