Harm not done is quite another thing from love lavished. "Do not harm your neighbour as you do not harm yourself?" But Paul’s love definition, too has a negative side: It keeps no record of wrongs. It’s balanced, in that it always protects, perseveres, trusts, etc. Wherever you go, there you are.

Miss statue waving her metal flame doggedly this first of March (whose weather Februarian remains) scorns this rusted, worn, graffiti-bearing bridge, sealed from its monstrosity by mist in simultaneous terms of physics; spirit; history. It is the same on either side of foggy separation this brand of liberty, which candidly facilitates both polished empire and…

I create spiritually-themed images that fuse the qualities of traditional art with the freedom of digital media. My work addresses themes of language, time, seasonal change, cycles, and growth, as well as resurrection and redemption. Drawing from a Reformed theological understanding, I explore the connections between art and Christian faith. My focus is to express…

It’s wonderful to reminisce over an old painting, and to look at it with fresh perception. I see this violent, searching, brooding, stubbornly-hopeful tree as a chapter in my own history where I learned much. The deep lessons of darker paintings and brokenness manifest themselves later in the nuanced ways in which further visual exploration…

With a temperature in Ontario hovering around 20 degrees C below zero, there isn’t much of anything flowing around here, unless it’s natural gas towards the furnace. Flowing, however, happens abundantly, joyfully, in the pages of the Scriptures. Psalm 46: "There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God". We might also…

These holiday weeks have been a wonderful time of reflection. And now I have come across a beautiful way to represent that calm. The green tea leaves were a Christmas gift, from my Chinese friend whose knowledge of medicines and papermaking astounds me. The tea leaves form the caring texture beneath my mirrored forehead skin;…

Take a walk to clear your head of all the tinsel. Leave behind the mittens that you lose. Ponder anew the grace of God in sending us His Christ. Relax. Reflect. Rejoice. Discover slow-paced productivity, And definitely do something useful with your hands (yup, that’s a nifty trick to help you overcome those listless, aimless,…

The Fifty Stems series is process art, in which the Ontario October becomes more than merely scattered, fallen detritus on the forest floor. These leaf stems have been arranged, photographed, and colourized, thus undergoing a transformation from the organic to the conceptual. Whereas I have elsewhere communicated the sublime in terms of sensory overload, with…

In response to Fall; Rise, I’ve been privileged to have many discussions with many people about their views on faith, life, and the afterlife. Some of the most interesting have been with atheists. In that connection, I believe it might be helpful to talk a bit about the resurrection, and its implications. As time allows…