Peace seems illusive. And yet, every Christmas season, we cling to the hope of it, search for the sight of it, hold it, if only momentarily, within our hearts, and pray for a world of it. Here is Maya Angelou’s poem for it accompanied by children’s imaginings of it from all over the world.
Read MoreWe stretch our wings, head thrown back in the effort it takes to open ourselves to all that might be, not knowing whose fingertips we will touch in the aching desire to connect with another.
Read MoreThe Crucifixion of Jesus has been a focus for painters throughout the ages. What is depicted reflects the time, place, economics and politics of the painters and the culture in which they reside. Most notably, European artists from the Renaissance on, have painted Jesus, his family and his disciples as Caucasian, when in fact, Jesus was in the middle east, and would have had an ethnicity that reflected his birth place.
Read MoreThe Angelus (French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet, completed between 1857 and 1859. The painting depicts two peasants bowing in a field over a basket of potatoes to say a prayer, the Angelus, that together with the ringing of the bell from the church on the horizon marks the end of a day's work.
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