The Big Picture: Meeting Christ in Sundry Places

The Big Picture 16, from The Kirby Laing Centre, explores third places: the social spaces between home and work that are so influential in community life but increasingly under threat in our fragmented, digitised world. As usual, they have a diverse group of contributors who help us to think through how such places contribute to human flourishing, and the relationship of third places to public theology and Christian formation.

Issue 16 features articles about health clubs, coffee rooms and even cigar lounges as sites of encounter and missional opportunity, as well as considering how we might reconceive of churches as active third places that engage our wider community. They also feature articles about anime, art, film, philosophy, books and their Decalogue project.

The Big Picture regularly republishes articles previously published through ArtWay and, on this occasion, is re-publishing my interview with Francis Hoyland: 'ArtWay: Meeting Christ in Sundry Places — Jonathan Evens interviewing Francis Hoyland. Evens interviews painter Francis Hoyland about his decades of depicting Christ’s life, and the role that his Catholic faith plays in his art.'

By Friday, you will be able to order full-colour hard copies on Amazon, and Substack readers will get access to the whole magazine (paid subscribers) or the first batch of articles (free subscribers). You can read the contents page with descriptions here.

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