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	<description>An Exploration of a Century of Christian Art</description>
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		<title>Art and Worship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I said it only 2 days ago in Modern Christian Art in Churches, and now here is Father W. Thomas Faucher, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Boise, Idaho relating how using new works of art in the major renovation of his church has impacted favorably on the worship of his congregation.

Reported in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Christian Art in Churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like the days when the greatest of contemporary art resided in churches are long gone.  I for one think we need a revival.  And from what I hear, there are pastors who feel the same way.

I am hearing rumblings that it&#8217;s not easy to source relevant, modern christian art to decorate church buildings.  This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Art Speaks in the Daily Kansan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>junglequeen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A student at Kanses University describes in The University Daily Kansan how for the first time he made a connection with a piece of modern art, and how that experience led him to a better undrstanding of what modern art is about.

Nicolas Roesler, almost as an afterthought, decided at the end of a day&#8217;s visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Francis &#8211; Art Compared</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>junglequeen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now there is an exhibition of Spanish Painting and Sculpture on at the National Gallery in London featuring religious works from the 17th Century Spanish Golden Age, including Spain&#8217;s remarkable polychrome sculptures.

It is interesting to compare  one of the exhibits &#8211; a polychrome sculpture of the Saint created by Pedro de Mena (1628 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Smither: St Francis in Ecstasy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>junglequeen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This second painting of Saint Francis by Michael Smither depicts the patron saint of ecology &#8211; Smither&#8217;s favorite saint &#8211; in a state of ecstasy in the presence of nature. Like many NZ artists, Michael is strongly influenced by the landscape.

This painting is the second half of a diptych that also features Saint Francis Receiving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Christian Wallpaper Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>junglequeen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an invitation to visit my Flickr Photostream Set entitled &#8220;Christian Wallpapers&#8221;, where I currently have a dozen images on display &#8211; my first upload of Christian Artworks to Flickr.

These are computer-images, a number of them based on my own paintings.  They are more suitable for wallpapers than for presentation backgrounds, because they all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motives For Destroying Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>junglequeen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first of 2 articles based on BBC TV&#8217;s new art series &#8220;Art Attack&#8221;,  Lawrence Pollard, the series presenter, draws on some historical examples to explain attacks on both secular and christian artworks, and the destructive element in  the work of some modern artists.

This is a very thought-provoking article, both from a historical point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art From Death Row</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>junglequeen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Art show with a difference in Oakland CA showcases art created by death row residents at San Quentin, &#8220;Oakland North&#8221; &#8211; a news project of U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism &#8211; reports today.

The show reveals an amazing diversity of subject-matter and styles and a high level of skill and inspiration in the exhibitors.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cross-Stitch Art Starts With a Blank Canvas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>junglequeen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allene Moses of Athens, US creates complex and detailed Christian counted cross-stitch art, starting with a blank canvas and no visual cues on the cloth, reports the Daily Post Athenian in an article published today.

She is currently working on a design that features the words to the hymn &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221; &#8211; it is one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Smither: &#8220;I Would Have Been a Franciscan&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>junglequeen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If I hadn&#8217;t become a painter, I would have been a Franciscan,&#8221; is how Christian artist Michael Smither described himself in an interview with the New Zealand Women&#8217;s Weekly in 1969.

Michael made several paintings of Saint Francis &#8211; his favorite saint.  This one is called &#8220;Saint Francis Receives the Stigmata&#8221;, and while it definitely is [...]]]></description>
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