Brian Nixon
Brian Nixon is a writer, artist, musician, educator, and family man. He’s a graduate of California State University, Stanislaus (BA), Veritas Seminary (MA), and is a Fellow at Oxford Graduate School (D.Phil.). Brian is the author of "Tilt: Finding Christ in Culture" and "Beauty (and the Banana), both by Wipf & Stock Publishers.
Hopsy The Bear Teaches Us To Care
Annan, Dumfriesshire, SW Scotland (ANS) — Most people have heard of the Teddy Bear, named after famed U.S President Theodore Roosevelt. But have you...
US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Visits Albuquerque
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (ANS)—She spent much of her life in New Mexico as a student—both in Santa Fe (Bureau of Indian Affairs for high...
Libraries and Books: Companions For the Crossing in 2020
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (ANS)—After reading the brilliant, The Library Book, Susan Orlean’s New York best-selling tome on the history of the Los Angeles library...
Species in Peril on the Borderlands
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (ANS)— “Haiku's of peril” loudly proclaims Mexican poet León De la Rosa-Carrillo to a packed house at 516 Arts in downtown...
Game Changer: The Harvest Handbook of Bible Lands
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (ANS)—After browsing through Harvest House’s new book on Bible lands, history, and archeology, I knew I was holding a game-changing work. ...
Less is More: Robert Irwin’s From Dawn To Dusk
Marfa, Texas (ANS)—California artist, Robert Irwin’s (b. 1928), monumental work Untitled (dawn to dusk), 2016 is a permanent installation housed on the grounds of...
Kayne West’s Jesus Is King: Two Celebrities, One Star
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (ANS)—I admit it. I had alternative reasons for attending Kayne West’s movie Jesus is King. It wasn’t to see West or...
What is Holiness: Art at the Abbey
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (ANS)—According to Pope Francis, “Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way—that is,...
Lobo Living Room: The Importance of Story
The following sketches are taken from a University of New Mexico (UNM) University Press panel discussion entitled Lobo Living Room, held on Wednesday, October...
Three Journalistic Sketches of the Fields and Mural Poetry Walk
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Five women—all muralists—decode the geography and paint portraits of the land and people, part of the reconstitution of Valle de Oro. We’re told it’s...
