TLC 247/12 Online November 24, 2013 News The December 8 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. In this edition art professor Dennis Raverty writes in a cover essay on the early 20th-century Russian painter Marc Chagall: What is surprising, given the artist’s Jewish background and faith, is the number of Christian themes that emerge in his work from these years: more than a dozen depictions of the crucifixion are in the exhibit. Sometimes the crucifixion of Jesus is the principal subject, as in his well-known White Crucifixion. Often, however, the crucifixion itself is not the principal subject of the painting in which it is included — almost, it seems, as commentary inserted in the margins, what Jews call “Midrash.” News‘A Long Way to Go’ on Racism FeaturesPraying with Those Who PrayBy Ephraim Radner BooksSacraments of Initiation by Liam G. WalshReview by Bryan D. Spinks 15 Days of Prayer seriesReview by Mark Michael Wounded Visions by Jonas JonsonReview by Michael Root English Catholic Exiles in Late Sixteenth-century Paris by Katy GibbonsReview by Mark F.M. Clavier CulturesChagall’s MidrashBy Dennis Raverty Catholic VoicesMartha, Martha, Be StillBy Leonard Freeman Other DepartmentsLetters to the EditorSunday’s ReadingsPeople & Places
