Today Fidelia’s Sisters celebrates spring with some flower photography by Katherine Willis Pershey. Katherine writes: I am a beginning photographer. After inheriting a good camera from my sister a few years ago, I now have, in my infant daughter, a pressing inspiration to learn how to use it. In addition to taking hundreds of photos […]
This month we feature the photography of Elizabeth Marie Melchionna. After graduation, Elizabeth Marie took a slightly different route than most seminary students. She applied–and received–a Luce Fellowship, a prestigious scholarship that allows young American professionals to live and work a year in Asia. During her year in Chiang Mai at Payap University’s McGilvary College […]
This month we are pleased to offer visual art and poetry together from two different artists, Mary Allison Cates (who created a series we featured in Advent) and Heidi Koschzec.
You’ve read Stacey Midge’s witty articles for Single Rev’s Guide to Life. Did you know she is also a musician? Click below to hear her play “Long Road Home”: Long Road Home from Stacey on Myspace. Here is more of Stacey’s music.
This month’s Christ and Creativity feature… Storytime They thought I was one of those teenage mothers who turned out all right. But the county health department nurses didn’t know that the young tornadoes in their waiting room were only mine occasionally. Both settled on my lap, sister on one leg, brother on the other, and […]
Today we feature two poems. MaryAnn writes: “Last December I decided to write a series of poems inspired by beloved Advent and Christmas hymns. It was a great spiritual discipline for me in the midst of the busyness of the season. I remember sitting with a cup of cocoa and the Presbyterian Hymnal, reading carefully the hymns that […]
As we move toward the already-and-not-yet of Advent, we celebrate Christ’s birth so long ago even as we know that Christ must be born in us again and again. Countless artists over the centuries have portrayed Advent themes and scenes. These block prints by Mary Allison Cates weave together the personal and the political with […]
How do you immerse yourself in the biblical text? For one young clergy woman, visual art is key to the process. She writes, “I believe through images and the act of creating, the Spirit engages us and gives us new eyes to see the unseen God alive in our lives and in the lives of our communities. […]
For this, our inaugural feature, we bring you two very different pieces, “On Women and Children and Poverty,” a visual piece by Suzanne Stovall Vinson, and “&,” a poem by MaryAnn McKibben Dana. While the medium and focus of the two pieces differ from one another, each piece speaks to the particularity of women’s experience […]
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