LIFESTORY: BONO AND GUGGI – A FRIENDSHIP BASED ON ART, PUNK ROCK AND JESUS
CATHLEEN FALSANI, writing for Religion News Service, speaks with artist Guggi about growing up in North Dublin, his faith and art – and his famous friendship with Bono…
Israeli Christians protest artwork depicting Ronald McDonald as ‘McJesus’
RNS A work titled “McJesus,” depicting a crucified Ronald McDonald, at an art museum in Haifa has brought angry calls from local Christians to remove it – a result the artist said he approves. Last Friday, hundreds of Arab Christians demonstrated in front of the Haifa Museum of the Arts, demanding that it remove the […]
Bible museum is first in US to show mile-long illustrated Bible
RNS Going through his late father’s attic painting studio in 2013, a German banker named Martin Wiedmann was surprised to find a Bible that his father, Willy, had spent years creating. The 3,333 illustrated pages were bound as a leporello, a book that is pleated like an accordion. Fully laid out, Willy Wiedmann’s Bible stretches […]
US preacher plumbs the art of the sermon by yielding the pulpit to passers-by
Grand Rapids, MichiganRNS A pulpit is often regarded as a sacred and in many ways exclusive space. Most religions allow only the ordained to speak to congregants from this place. Ordinary voices seldom have access to the power of the pulpit. Steve Norman wants to change that. Steve Norman, seated, created ‘The Preachers’ art exhibit for […]