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Ben Lima

Dr. Ben Lima is an art historian and critic, and a parishioner at the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas.

Cathedral Graffiti, Ancient and Modern

This paradox of “official outsiderdom” tends to hollow out, or at least relativize, the project’s desire to present the “lone voice” or “marginalized.”

A Blazing, Bracing Sacramentality — A Review of Recent Works by Jane Clark Scharl

Having much appreciated Jane Clark Scharl’s brilliant criticism on topics from Milton to Flannery O’Connor, I had very high expectations for her two recently...

Orderly and Confident Church Designs

Christopher Webster’s presentation of important Classical achievements such as St. Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury (George Steuart, 1790-92) is novel and enlightening.

Coleridge: Venetian Choral music, the Beauty of Concrete, and Flannery O’Connor’s Biopic

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Cinema Two films about the 2015 Coptic martyrs in Libya are raising funds:...

Coleridge: Robert Frost’s Numinosity, Don Quixote’s Enchantment, and Ephrem the Syrian’s Poetry

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Music Frank La Rocca’s Requiem for the Forgotten “stirs the soul” (Classical Music...

Coleridge: Dune’s Manichaeanism, Pesellino’s Renaissance, and Dickens’ Sentimentality

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Music Fugue State Films is raising money for Lighten Our Darkness, a film...

Coleridge: The Leper of Abercuawg, Marilynne Robinson’s Genesis, and Anglo-Saxon liturgical books

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Music Compared to the music of Haydn and Mozart, that of Dieterich Buxtehude...

Coleridge: Scorsese’s Jesus film, the Erasmian Quixote, and ecstatic poetry

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Contemporary Art Mark K. Spencer reviews Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts...

Coleridge: Stained-Glass Pioneers, Christian Wiman against Despair, and Nick Cave’s Yearning

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Art Pending lectures include, on February 8 in London, “Balthazar: The Third Man...

Coleridge: Bill Watterson’s Mysteries, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nativity play, and Milton’s rebellion

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Art and Architecture Is art a secular invention? Matthew Milliner tests the theory...