Category: Art as Meditation

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

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.  

Rabbi Heschel teaches that the prophet speaks not from an inner peace and calmness (the introvert way) but “charged with agitation, anguish, and a spirit

I am meeting more and more young adults these days telling me they feel called to be “prophets” in this time of Earth crisis.  If