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‘Holy Frit’ film tells sacred, profane story of ‘huge, freaking’ stained-glass window
By Kathryn Post — November 10, 2023
(RNS) — The documentary captures Judson Studios' race against time to build one of the world’s largest stained-glass windows for the biggest mainline church in America.
‘A burden of beauty’: Five religious artisans on finding inspiration in faith
By Renée Roden — September 7, 2021
(RNS) — Forbidden images, illuminated manuscripts and even maps testify to the creativity humans bring to the project of making the transcendent tangible.
Birmingham church bombing recalled with donation, medal
By Adelle M. Banks — September 10, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) Fifty years after a KKK bombing at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., shook hopes for a colorblind country, the four girls who died are getting their due.
Artists painstakingly transfer sacred stained glass windows
By Tracy Gordon — March 30, 2012
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) For nearly a century, the stained glass portrait of St. Patrick looked down on parishioners -- as if from the heavens -- from the massive nave of the sacred Heart church in this city's Vailsburg neighborhood.
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