The Fshbwl

Frank Hart's Confession

Frank Hart is a singer/songwriter from Houston, but his music sounds like he could be from anywhere east of the sunrise or west of the sunset. Frank’s main instrument is guitar and the record is driven from beginning to end by his hauntingly beautiful acoustic guitar and ...

Gabe Gibitz and Psalm 19

I first met Gabe Gibitz in the spring of 2003 at what is now The Crave in St. Louis, Missouri. I was a seminary student and he was a 19-year-old sophomore pre-med student at St. Louis University.

Unexpected Rewards

Following one of my art openings last year, I was invited to an outdoor barbecue at a friend’s house. This friend, along with her three young daughters, also attended my exhibition.

Detroit and the Theology of the Cross

I met artist Kate Levy at the same gallery where I met Michael Johnson. Johnson, who was working as the gallery manager, had put together an "all female artist" show and, as I found myself fixated on the "Detroit - God" photograph, a woman standing next to me asked if I like the work.

Collaborations

Collaborations are nothing new in the art world, but they are one way to stir up the imagination and have a good excuse for a party!

From my own experience, group projects are fun and have helped birth new ideas for future paintings.

Robert Eustace and Awakening Memory

It is not happenstance that the word “zakhor,” the Hebrew word for remember, appears in the Bible over one hundred and fifty times because the ancient Hebrews were commanded to remember. This commandment was often repeated so that the Hebrews would never forget the countless times God’s faithfulness had brought them as a people safely through.

Hidden Things

I first met fine artist Michael Johnson at a now defunct gallery in Denver's Santa Fe Art District. He wasn't quite sure what to do with a pastor who liked hanging out with the art crowd, but a friendship developed rather quickly none the less.

D.C. Morale

In our age, scientific discoveries shed light on functions of the body everyday, yet there is much — emotions, thought processes, spiritual experiences — that still eludes researchers. Artists have always been drawn to the figure as subject matter throughout time in order to explore unknown parts of the human drama and have interpreted it in many different ways on canvas.

Friends and Fixtures

This poem could also be called, “While Sitting in the Break Room for Nursing Home Staff.” I am a volunteer chaplain at a nursing home and a Christian who has met many new “friends” of late; and, not unimportantly, takes seriously the words of First Corinthians 1:18: For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Studio Gypsy

Two of the world’s oldest mediums — poetry and fiber — come together in a vivid and exquisite way within Leilani Pierson’s artwork. Her eclectic style weaves stories out of objects you might have gathered in a drawer: buttons, bits of ribbons, typed words, thread and swatches of cloth. She exposes bits of broken words and images to create meditations on the details of life.