Author Archives: macconlon

Where theology concerns itself in how the unseen makes its mark on the material, art concerns itself with making a material trace of the unseen. As a student of theology trained for ministry in a mainline, Canadian Protestant denomination, I … Continue reading →

Three artists, three poets. 6 people in conversation: 3 artists, 3 poets — how art and poetry inspire each other. Audience participation invited by way of on-the-spot poems and drawings. Sunday, October 30, 2011 at the Merchants of Green Coffee, … Continue reading →

Jacques Lipchitz fled to Toulouse when German troops occupied Paris in 1940. He soon left France for good and went to the US, where he settled in New York. Like Feuchtwanger, he used biblical themes in his sculptures. In his … Continue reading →

from a talk given on 5 February 2011 Art, as in painting, is another language.  And language, in a sense, is “transferring,” or translation. I recall my dad’s response to a woman’s impatience at his hesitation when talking about one … Continue reading →

Light Break Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, To undo the thongs of the yoke, To let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your … Continue reading →

Jephthah’s daughter (Judges 11: 21-40) is Gilead’s granddaughter.  Jephthah was Gilead’s bastard son.  To understand Gilead, one must think of a superhero.  His son, once rejected as a bastard, became regarded as a superhero as well, because he helped deliver … Continue reading →

In honour of St. Patrick’s Day, I am sharing a reflection I gave at World Food Day in 2004. World Food Day celebrates the October 1945 founding in Quebec City  of the Food and Agricultural Organization, also known as the … Continue reading →

ARTbeat Poster 7-reduced The last Old Town ARTbeat event was an art exhibit, “Saphira and Other Stories Brought to Light,” featuring some of my artwork (and Old Town ARTbeat posters!) which was to have been on display at Chaska until … Continue reading →