The Reverend Dr. Frederick W. Schmidt, Jr. is Director of Spiritual Formation and Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas. An Episcopal priest, he also serves as the director of the Episcopal studies program. He is canonically resident in the Diocese of Washington and a member [...]
Find out more...To any rap tune of your choosing:
I want to say,
There’s a big payday
For the ones who say
There’s just no way
That Moses, Jesus, and Martin
Pissed on religion
But there’s just no way
To make a case for that vision
Yet another ill-informed commentator with a camera, a really great [...]
An art form that has captured my interest in recent years is sculpture. There is something about the ability to craft a freestanding, three-dimensional object out of raw material that fascinates me.
Any piece of art is, no doubt, born of the ability to imagine another world, but to nurture something that occupies our own space [...]