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Along with contemplation and emptying comes play, fantasy, and creativity. Creativity is utterly natural to our species—indeed it is the very working definition of humanity
Walter Brueggemann, one of the great Hebrew Bible scholars of our time, in his important book on The Prophetic Imagination, speaks to the prophet Jeremiah’s
Navajo painter David Paladin was put in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of fifteen during WWII. When he was liberated two and a
Today I offer reflections from one of Meister Eckhart’s sermons, which I title: “The Holy Spirit, Like a Rapid River, Divinizes Us.” Eckhart writes:
We are discussing ” Art as Meditation: the Way of the Prophets.” Following is a personal story that woke me up to the power of
Eckhart does not get trapped in the contemplation vs. action dualistic dilemma. He also endorses art as meditation, which is centering by way of giving birth.
Continuing our discussion on “art as meditation, the way of the prophets,” Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, connects imagination to the prophetic role when
Eckhart insists that it is better to bear fruit than merely to receive God. “It is good for a person to receive God into himself
M. C. Richards tells the story of being at a beach in North Carolina and awakening to racism when she saw segregation at the water
In her now classic book, Centering in Pottery, Poetry and the Person, potter M. C. Richards offers us a near-Bible on Art as Meditation.
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