OMNIA MUTANTUR, NIHIL INTERIT.

I’m an artist and United Methodist pastor based in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Here, I founded Catacombs: Underground Jesus Fellowship, a community of Christian formation in Lancaster and Downingtown. Through meals, prayer, Scripture, conversation, and service, we seek to live what Jesus taught.

My ministry includes working with people in recovery, people returning from incarceration, and people experiencing homelessness. I’m interested in how grace takes shape in ordinary lives and how we learn to love one another in practice.

As an artist, my work attempts to reintroduce the everyday world to its naturally mysterious, spiritual state. I create works on canvas without paint, using only materials that appear spent and useless.

We often think of the material and spiritual worlds as being separate from – and indeed opposite of – each other. I’m interested in resurrecting what is spiritual from what appears dead, in reawakening sleeping little miracles in the mundane.

I also serve on the Board of Directors of the Giancarlo Ditrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts.