LOOK: “Invisible Boundaries” by Rowan Mersh | LISTEN: “Break of Dawn” by Antoine Bradford

MMK is an alternative folk band from France consisting of Noémie Kessler (lead vocals), Sophie Chaussier, Antoine Garnier, Jérémy Haessig, Cédric Kessler, and Jonathan Lubrez. On November 23, 2016,…

LOOK: “Confetti Skies” by Rochelle Redfield | LISTEN: “When the Beauty Comes” by Nicolas Melas

LOOK: “God will wipe away every tear” by Max Beckmann | LISTEN: “God shall wipe away all tears” by Karl Jenkins

LOOK: “Epiphany of the Other” by Richard Kenton Webb | LISTEN: “How Long, Dear Savior” by the Boston Camerata

The Word, for our sake, became poverty clothed as the poor who live off the refuse heap. The Word, for our sake, became agony in the shrunken breast of the woman grown old by the absence of her mur…

LOOK: “New Morning” by David Blow | LISTEN: “There’s a New Day Coming” by Menahan Street Band

LOOK: “Shather Alfairooz (Gold Specks of Turquoise)” by Nabeela Al Khayer | LISTEN: “Day Star” by the Brothers of Abriem Harp

“Twelve Days of Advent” poem series by Kate Bluett | An art historian walks through the Advent themes of hope, peace, joy, and love | “War on Christmas” by Seryn | “O New Commingling! O…

LOOK: “Eve” by Kiki Smith | LISTEN: “Lecha Dodi” (Come, My Beloved) by Maayan Tzafrir

LOOK: “Sunlight in Forest” by Charles Burchfield | “Isaiah’s Prophecy” by Alexander L’Estrange

LOOK: “the rain bows and the rainbows” by Katy Mixon | LISTEN: “Joyful” by Paul Zach

Kat Armas and Tracey Bianchi on the Magnificat | Space for God video devotion that engages with James Tissot’s “Magnificat” painting | Songs by Jane Parker Huber, Jennifer Henry, …

LOOK: “The Visitation” by Paulina Krajewska (two versions) | LISTEN: “Curious Woman” by Tow’rs

LOOK: “Annunciation” by Pablo Sanaguano | LISTEN: “Bendita seas, María” by Ariel Glaser

A recent series of oil paintings on bread boards and other domestic wooden objects tells the story of Christ’s first coming—on display at Chelmsford Cathedral through February 2, 2026

LOOK: “The Wise and Foolish Virgins,” Norwegian tapestry | LISTEN: “Himmelriket Liknas Vid Tio Jungfrur,” traditional Swedish hymn

LOOK: “Portrait of Jesus” by Hatigammana Uttarananda | LISTEN: “When Jesus Comes,” African American spiritual, arr. Alice Parker

LOOK: Apse mosaic, Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian, Rome | LISTEN: “God Is Coming on the Clouds” by Brother John Sellers

LOOK: “Waiting for the Messiah” by Sister Kim Ok-soon | LISTEN: “Hallelujah Sang the People” by Bruce Spelman

Gravity’s maker, spinner of spheres and spiraling matter, made into weight, to sweat. His own feet vulnerable, drawn flat and close against the punishing ground.

LOOK: “Peace Window” by Marc Chagall | LISTEN: “Oracles” by Steve Bell

LOOK: “The Waiting” by Charlotte Mann Lee | LISTEN: “Psalm 27” by Psalm Project Africa

LOOK: “Around the Circle” by Wassily Kandinsky | LISTEN: “Maranatha” by David Benjamin Blower

LOOK: “Earth Rite” by Holly Slingsby | LISTEN: “Kasar mie la Gaji” by Alberto Grau

LOOK: “Tree of Life” by Kateryna Shadrina | LISTEN: “For the Healing of the Nations” by Fred Kaan

“Poems of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany” with Brian Volck | “Hear Us” installation at Canterbury Cathedral | “Dios con Nosotros,” an Infancy of Christ cycle by Kreg Yingst…

LOOK: “The Way to Bethlehem” by Sliman Mansour | LISTEN: “Bethlehem” by Over the Rhine

LOOK: Photograph from the war in Ukraine by Franco Fafasuli | LISTEN: “О, Зійди” (Oh, Come Down) by Room for More

LOOK: “Luminarias” by Juan Guzmán | LISTEN: “Come, Oh Redeemer, Come” by Fernando Ortega

LOOK: “Quote-Unquote,” “Hyphen,” and “The Point of Intersection” by Kay Sage | LISTEN: “Not Knowing When the Dawn Will Come” by Jan Van Outryve

A list of poems, old and new, to mark Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany—all freely available online

Advent series by Tamara Hill Murphy | “The Sacred Journey of Advent” by Ashley Tumlin Wallace | “Prepare the Way” by Maverick City Music and Tribl, and by Christopher Walker | Advent Ca…

The Protoevangelium of James and the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew describe Mary undergoing the sotah ritual described in Numbers 5. The church in the East has occasionally portrayed it visually.

Advent musings by David Taylor | Linda Gregerson on “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” | “The Art of Living in Advent” by Sylvie Vanhoozer | “Advent: 24 Kunstwerke zur Bibel a…

“This Advent, choose some time for silence. Make space within yourself to grow large with the abundance of God’s favor.”

Want to receive a daily pairing of art and music in your inbox during this Advent and Christmas season? Sign up here. Posts will run from November 29, the day before the first Sunday of Advent, to …

Brian Zahnd on Dostoevsky’s darkest and most prophetic novel | LAFSC on how to watch a movie (as a Christian) | Documentary about men in Missouri prison who make quilts | “To Breathe—Mo…

Hicks’s debut poetry collection reflects her decades of living as a global nomad, exploring themes of memory, connection, suffering, exile (both physical and spiritual), hospitality, and hope…

November Playlist, incl. 3 songs by Indigenous artists | “Nagamo” album by Cree composer Andrew Balfour | World premiere of “A Timbered Choir” by Josh Rodriguez | Paintings,…

Great Spirit of the God who is alive,Whose risen Son I seek before the dawn,Who makes the black and gold sunflower thrive,The earthworm loosen soil beneath the lawn;Great Spirit, grant my great-gra…

Upcoming Maryland concerts: Matthew Clark and Ordinary Time | Review of “Ask of Old Paths” by Grace Hamman | Ben Palpant interviews 17 poets | Lanta Davis on bone chapels and their stra…

The walls of the 17th-century Golden Chamber are decorated with thousands of human bones—allegedly those of St. Ursula and her eleven thousand virgin companions. It’s quite a sight. And there…

This year KMSKA hosted the exhibition Collected with Vision: Private Collections in Dialogue with the Old Masters, bringing contemporary artworks into conversation with late medieval/early Renaissa…

In this first of a two-part article, I share some highlights from the Kolumba museum in Cologne, which displays medieval and contemporary artworks side-by-side.

I woke, and all the kingless world was bleak. I slept, and earth was governed by the meek.

October 2025 Playlist | Podcast recommendation: POETRY FOR ALL | Four poems by Paul J. Pastor | “Undone” by Michael Stalcup | Kimberly Johnson on an epigram by Richard Crashaw | Bonnie …

At the Art and History Museum in Brussels I encountered a riveting fifteenth-century tapestry from Tournai.

“Sing a New Song” exhibition at the Morgan, with new performance work by Bingyi | 7-week film seminar with Gareth Higgins | Call for papers addressing (1) visual art and notions of refu…