• Art,  Featured,  incarnation,  metaphor

    Every Poem Wants to Be Jesus: Why Christians Need Art

    How mysterious is the incarnation of God in man in the person of Jesus Christ! God, who is spirit, makes Himself known in the body of Jesus.  Making the word flesh is, of course, the aim of every poet.  The goal of art is to turn what is spirit into a poem, a painting, a dance, or a song.  It is the same impulse, to turn what is ineffable into something concrete. To turn the abstract into something that can be lived within the body. The Greek word, Logos, which means the Word and the Deed, is an attempt to explain the mystery of metaphor and the nature of incarnation.…