Faith, Fiction, Friends

In 1843,   Charles Dickens   sat for a portrait by the English painter   Margaret Gillies . At the time, the author’s career seemed to be eb...

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon during our most recent trip to London, we traveled the tube from our hotel in Westminster to the Liv...

It may be the space – a refurbished power plant with a spectacular open interior several stories high. It may be the shop for art and r...

Last fall, we had the opportunity to see an exhibition of paintings by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), considered one of the best English p...

I attended the School of Journalism at LSU from 1970 to 1973. It was a kind of twilight time for journalism; the upheavals of the 1960s...

Tuesday night, we went to a wine-and-cheese reception at the St. Louis Art Museum . The reception was for members only (they do member-...

This article first appeared at The Christian Manifesto. In 1864, the French painter Edouard Manet finished “ The Dead Christ wit...