Dr Deborah Lewer is an art historian, Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, and a regular speaker in churches, theological colleges and at festivals and retreats on the rich relationship between art and faith. She is passionate about making art history accessible to all and has led a number of retreats for us on Iona, as well as being a regular speaker at ColumbaFest and in our Northern Lights venue at Greenbelt.
Over the last few months Debbie has been making podcasts in partnership with St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral Glasgow and the Iona Community, in which she enters into conversation with a particular work of art as a way of reflecting on ideas and questions. Although the podcasts are linked to festivals of the Church cycle, the themes they explore are ones we grapple with all the time – and perhaps in heightened ways in these current time of pandemic. Hence we’re delighted to be able to locate them somewhere more permanent than the social media platforms where they were originally shared so that it’s easy for folk to find them and dip into them.
Bodies in Transition series
1: The Visitation
Accompanying liturgy (with podcast embedded) available here
2: Corpus Christi
Accompanying liturgy (with podcast embedded) available here
3: The Transfiguration
Accompanying liturgy (with podcast embedded) available here
A podcast for the Feast of the Ascension
Accompanying liturgy (with podcast embedded) available here