image used with the artist’s kind permission Information Alma Lee lives in rural Wisconsin and notes that she sits down to work and never knows what is going to come out. She des not usually do preliminary drawings or plan or pray, but merely open herself to the flow of Christ and sees what […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 10th April 2024
Information Sliman Mansour is an artist in Palestine. His style, which has come to symbolise Palestinian national identity, has inspired generations of Palestinian and international artists. Using symbols derived from Palestinian life, culture, history, and tradition, Mansour illustrates Palestinians’ resolve and connection with their land. With women wearing traditional embroidered dresses, he represents Palestinian land […]
Daily Devotion Tuesday 9th April 2024
image used with kind permission of Judith Tutin Information Judith Tutin is an Irish-born artist living in Cornwall. She works in oil painting and cyanotype photography. Judith’s work explores abstract and semi-abstract representations of light sources, spiritual experiences and nature’s effect on surfaces. Strongly influenced by Italian Catholic art history and 20th century colour […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 8th April 2024
Information White Crucifixion is the first in Marc Chagall’s series of compositions that feature Jesus as a Jewish martyr and dramatically call attention to the persecution and suffering of Jews in 1930s Germany at the hands of the Nazis. The work is startling as the crucifixion, often seen by the Jewish people as a symbol […]
Sunday Worship 7 April 2024
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 7 April 2024 Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome Hello and welcome to worship. In these joyful days of Eastertide we think of those early stories of disciples learning to form new communities; a scared community transformed by Jesus’ presence, a united community […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 6th April 2024
Information Dali was inspired to paint The Ascension of Christ by a “cosmic dream’ that he had in 1950, some eight years before the painting was completed. The vivid colours of his dream led to the painting of the nucleus of an atom as both the background to the painting and as a symbol of […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 5th April 2024
Information Currently a California resident, Dr He Qi Studied at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing Art Institute in China and Hamburg Art Institute in Germany. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Fuller Theological Seminary (CA) and is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Art Institute of RUC (Renmin University of China,Beijing) He was the first among Mainland Chinese […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 4th April 2024
Information Harmonia Rosales’ does not wish to upset viewers but to balance Christian art with images of black people. She was born in 1984 of Afro-Cuban American heritage, in Chicago. As a child she was interested in classic art by the Old Masters. Rosales defines herself as a womanist – a movement of black people […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Reading St Luke 23: 50 – 56 Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph, who, though a member of the council, had not agreed to their plan and action. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea, and he was waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God. This man went to Pilate […]
Daily Devotion for Tuesday 2nd April 2024
St Mark 16: 14 – 20 Later Jesus appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table; and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and […]