transfiguring

Perhaps then the church that seeks to be the body of Christ should forgo the quest for closure but seek instead to be a community that longs for healing transformation, not by ignoring its own wounds but by transfiguring those wounds into sites of and for communion.

John Thatamanil: Killing And The Myth Of Closure John Thatamanil 2011

Perhaps then the church that seeks to be the body of Christ should forgo the quest for closure but seek instead to be a community that longs for healing transformation, not by ignoring its own wounds but by transfiguring those wounds into sites of and for communion.

John Thatamanil: Killing And The Myth Of Closure John Thatamanil 2011

His strategy is finely honed and remarkably effective, transfiguring hackneyed, second-hand images to deliver a fresh psychological jolt.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

I was thrilled, for instance, by David Cromer's insufficiently appreciated Broadway production of John Guare's "The House of Blue Leaves" and the Keen Company's long-overdue Off-Broadway mounting of Lanford Wilson's "Lemon Sky," staged with transfiguring intensity by Jonathan Silverstein.

Revival of the Fittest: Great Shows Roar Back Terry Teachout 2011

For even though the plot of "Lemon Sky" is well worn and the premise predictable, Alan tells his tale of woe with a transfiguring intensity far removed from the soft-centered sentimentality of such better-known Wilson plays as "Burn This."

Home Is Where the Hate Is Terry Teachout 2011

Perhaps then the church that seeks to be the body of Christ should forgo the quest for closure but seek instead to be a community that longs for healing transformation, not by ignoring its own wounds but by transfiguring those wounds into sites of and for communion.

John Thatamanil: Killing And The Myth Of Closure John Thatamanil 2011

While most of the action takes place on a wide-open Elizabethan-style thrust stage, Ms. Goldmark's backdrop adds a transfiguring touch of mystery to the proceedings, as do Kiki Smith's white costumes, which deliberately make it difficult to tell the Montagues from the Capulets.

Love, Fresh and New Terry Teachout 2011

With this Power there comes, in the transfiguring soul of childhood, the Glory: the vision of accomplishment, the lofty ideal.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

And it means that Christian baptismal identity is — again at one and the same time — both a depth of human experience that brings us into at least the potential of intense, transfiguring love, the Trinitarian love in which Jesus himself lives, and a continuing experience of expectation, humility, penitence and hope.

'The Fellowship of the Baptized' - The John Coventry Memorial address 2010

Without the poetry of freedom, a distressingly human-like tear fell from my eyes, transfiguring the vision of my departed loved one, a brother poet steeped in our mutual mother, this once holy Russia.

Soviet Adam Henry Carri 2010