The Regent Vine
Welcome to The Vine, a publication of Regent College.
We’re delighted to share ideas and perspectives from a wide range of people within and beyond Regent’s circles. In articles and interviews, podcasts and videos, you’ll hear authentic voices speaking from experience and expertise about ideas that matter to our community and yours.
Join us for conversations that inform, challenge, and inspire.
The Regent Vine
Welcome to The Vine, a publication of Regent College.
We’re delighted to share ideas and perspectives from a wide range of people within and beyond Regent’s circles. In articles and interviews, podcasts and videos, you’ll hear authentic voices speaking from experience and expertise about ideas that matter to our community and yours.
Join us for conversations that inform, challenge, and inspire.
The Regent Vine
Welcome to The Vine, a publication of Regent College. Join us for conversations that inform, challenge, and inspire.
Apr 8, 2026
Bible
Community
Community: The Bible Is Full of Dilemmas—And That’s the Point
Matthew Lynch
Matt Lynch joins Zac Sechler to explore the Bible’s dilemmas and intentional ambiguity. Rather than offering easy answers, Scripture invites patience, humility, and a deeper capacity to hold tension, mystery, and transformation.
All Resources: Bible
Apr 3, 2026
Poetry: The Seven Words
Steven Gomez
This poetic meditation reflects on Jesus' seven last words from the cross, exploring themes of forgiveness, promise, abandonment, care, longing, completion, and surrender. Each word is a revelation of divine love, suffering, and hope, culminating in rest and the promise of resurrection.
Feb 18, 2026
Shall These Bones Live? The Ash Wednesday Promise of Art
Iwan Russell-Jones
Drawing on Ezekiel’s vision of dry bones and T. S. Eliot’s "Ash Wednesday," this reflection explores how art, liturgy, and Christian imagination confront despair while bearing witness to creatureliness, repentance, and hope in a fractured cultural landscape.
Feb 12, 2026
Sport: Idolatry or the Image of God … or Both?
Ross Hastings
A theologian reflects on a life shaped by competitive sport, exploring its beauty, communal joy, and formative power—while also confronting its temptations toward idolatry, pride, and misplaced identity—in light of creation, the image of God, and the hope of Christ’s kingdom.
Jan 30, 2026
Podcast: The Saint John's Bible Heritage Edition at Regent and Beyond
The Saint John's Bible Heritage Program
The Saint John’s Bible is a handcrafted work of sacred art and Scripture, featuring over 160 illuminations. This conversation explores its history, craftsmanship, community engagement, and how artful, communal reading invites a slower, deeper encounter with Scripture.
Jan 19, 2026
A Slightly Useful Way: Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and a Homiletic of Epistemic Humility
Drew Melton
Drawing on Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, this essay explores how preaching shaped by epistemic humility—embracing mystery, complexity, and grace—can speak more faithfully and credibly to a skeptical age.
Jan 13, 2026
Poetry: A Note to Doomsday Calculators
Jolene Nolte
The Lord suggests we not predict the day and the hour,
but as you persist in this, at least remember: First,
it’s not the doom of a cosmic detonation so much as...
Jan 12, 2026
Community: Malcolm Guite's Tribute to Luci Shaw
Malcolm Guite, Luci Shaw
Malcolm Guite remembers Luci Shaw, a poet whose Christian faith shone clearly through her work.
Dec 25, 2025
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Eugene H. Peterson
A twelve-part poetic meditation on Christmas and Epiphany, Eugene H. Peterson traces the gospel story from root to offering—light, waiting, conflict, joy, and gift—inviting readers to inhabit the mystery of Christ’s coming with wonder, honesty, and praise.
Dec 4, 2025
The God Fruit
Luci Shaw
A poem by Luci Shaw first published in the fall 2013 issue of CRUX.
Nov 6, 2025
Video: Imagining the Kingdom: Parable, Poetry & Gospel
Malcolm Guite
Jesus engages our imagination through parables, paradoxes, and miracles, revealing truths beyond reason alone. The gospel is not “imaginary”; it is so real that our baptized imagination becomes a vital faculty for understanding and apprehending the depths of Christ’s Kingdom.
Oct 31, 2025
The Horror of Hearing Without Listening
Jeremy Hunt
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s experimental soundtrack invites theological reflection on the act of listening. Jeremy Hunt argues that engaging with unsettling sounds can retrain us to listen deeply—cultivating empathy, attention, and presence in a noisy, distracted world.
Oct 27, 2025
Re-Imagining Imagination Through a Photographic Lens
Levi Shiach
A photographer reflects on two images of the same scene—one spontaneous, one staged—to explore how imagination works not by control but by receptivity. True seeing, he argues, is about allowing the world and the Spirit to speak, cultivating attention that opens us to truth, beauty, and love.
Oct 24, 2025
Poetry: After the Alarm
Jolene Nolte
I woke to early autumn air, a cold pool
upon which I float in my four-poster bed. . . .
Oct 22, 2025
Rediscovering Childlike Wonder: The Profound Allegory of "The Little Prince"
Fong Xue Ting
An analysis of The Little Prince, exploring its themes of childlike wonder, love, ego, and spiritual transformation through humility and imagination.
Oct 21, 2025
Video: Judith Wolfe on Eschatology and Christian Hope | Walk & Talk
Judith Wolfe
A conversation tracing the development of Christian eschatology from New Testament hope to institutional doctrine, touching on art and philosophy as expressed by figures such as Dante and C.S. Lewis. Philosophical theologian Judith Wolfe reminds us that eschatology explores what is ultimately true for individuals and the world.
Oct 14, 2025
Audio: The Man from Narnia
J.I. Packer
J.I. Packer reflects on C.S. Lewis’s life, imagination, and faith, exploring how his experiences shaped The Chronicles of Narnia and how the dynamic between author, reader, and story invites us into deeper understanding and wonder.
Oct 3, 2025
A Faithful Presence at the Intersection of Faith, Fashion & Academia
Fiona Dieffenbacher
Fashion meets faith in Fiona Dieffenbacher’s journey—exploring embodiment, identity, and the soul through style, Scripture, and scholarship.
Sep 29, 2025
The Saint John’s Bible Heritage Edition at Regent College: Ancient Art for the Modern Era
The Saint John's Bible Heritage Program
In this piece, The Saint Johns Bible Heritage Program shares the story behind a remarkable work of art, biblical interpretation, and creative engagement with Christian tradition.
Sep 26, 2025
Poetry: You’ve Made Your Bed
C. J. Berberich
A poetic lens on Isaiah 28 reveals pride, fear, and the nearness of God's true rest.
Sep 25, 2025
Video: Joy Marie Clarkson on Popular Culture and Faith | Walk & Talk
Joy Marie Clarkson
An interview on how art, literature, and metaphor shape spiritual formation. Clarkson explores how engagement with popular and classical works deepens moral imagination, reorients our view of death, and cultivates attention, empathy, and hope.
Sep 16, 2025
Will There Be AI Zombie Songs in Heaven?
Jonathan Lipps
Human creativity reflects divine design and personal growth; unlike AI-generated art, true art stems from soul, struggle, and transformation.
Sep 16, 2025
Video: Art, Conflict and Healing: Case Studies from Northern Ireland, China and Ukraine
Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
This lecture explores contemporary artists—Bogside Artists, Ai Weiwei, and Ukrainian creators—whose powerful works respond to conflict and oppression.
Sep 16, 2025
Poetry: Genesis
Jolene Nolte
Rainbows are rare here because they require both rain
and a low-angled, unobscured sun...
Sep 16, 2025
The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art
Jonathan Anderson
Religion has shaped modern art, yet art history often ignores it. This article urges deeper study of theology’s hidden role in contemporary art.
Sep 16, 2025
The New Jerusalem
Daniela Amestegui
A multicultural tapestry reimagines the New Jerusalem as a familiar, earthly city where God's Spirit weaves together diverse cultures in sacred unity.
Sep 16, 2025
"Music for the Brain and Booty"
Jonathan Saunders
Snarky Puppy’s music blends groove, intellect, and community, resisting reductionist views of humanity. Rooted in gospel, it unites body and spirit, revealing transcendence through deep human experience and offering a vision of the image of God made whole.
Sep 16, 2025
Stanley’s “Holy Box”
Iwan Russell-Jones
Stanley Spencer’s “holy box”—the Sandham Memorial Chapel—honours WWI soldiers with art that blends the sacred and the everyday. His vivid Resurrection paintings portray embodied, joyful renewal—revealing hope, holiness, and divine presence in ordinary life and human suffering.