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David Van Biema
David Van Biema is a longtime religion writer and the author of the
upcoming book, Speaking to God: A Cultural History of the Psalms.
City of peace, division, or both? Art show celebrates Jerusalem
Four years ago, the cocurators of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show, Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven, visited Theophilos III, the city’s Orthodox patriarch, and solicited his...
September 27, 2016
Alfonse Borysewicz's lonely struggle gives Catholic art a modern face
c. 2016 Religion News Service
(RNS) Whenever Alfonse Borysewicz addresses a fresh canvas, a daunting set of issues stares back at him....
June 20, 2016
Jewish artist Tobi Kahn crosses religious lines
As Passover approached, Tobi Kahn worked in his studio in Queens, New York, putting washes of glaze on a silver-painted peg, a miniature sculpture soon to join 48 others....
April 27, 2016
'Greatest religious painter of 20th century' receives new interest, rare exhibit
What can a nearly forgotten set of 58 masterful etchings by a man once called one of the great artists of the 20th century tell us about the state of religious art in America?...
February 24, 2016
David Trobisch, NT scholar, directs collections for Museum of the Bible: People
David Trobisch, a New Testament scholar and former Heidelberg University professor, acts as a roving ambassador to academia and top-rate museums....
May 21, 2015
Medieval prayer wheel presents a mystery to scholars
The directions are written on 1,035-year-old vellum: “The Order of the Diagram Written Here Teaches the Return Home.” Care to play?...
May 6, 2015
New York’s Museum of Biblical Art to close, lacking funding
c. 2015 Religion News Service...
April 29, 2015
David Trobisch lends Green family’s Bible Museum a scholarly edge
c. 2015 Religion News Service...
April 28, 2015
Bible museum begins construction in D.C., but curriculum is shelved
Construction began on the Museum of the Bible, founded and funded by Hobby Lobby’s Steve Green, in Washington, D.C., this fall, while an Oklahoma school district shelved his Bible curriculum....
December 4, 2014
Hobby Lobby’s Green family postpones launch of public school Bible curriculum
c. 2014 Religion News Service...
July 16, 2014
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Lobbying for Bible classes
The Mustang, Oklahoma, school board has voted to adopt a Bible course developed by Steve Green, clearing the way for the Hobby Lobby president—whose suit against the Affordable Care Act is currentl...
April 15, 2014
‘Crown jewel’ of American printing fetches $14.2 million in record auction
c. 2013 Religion News Service...
November 27, 2013
One psalm, two causes and two meanings
Saralee Howard remembers the woman who walked into the Shared Pregnancy Women’s Center in Lansing, Michigan, last year and asked for an ultrasound even though she was leaning toward an abortion....
April 2, 2012