His passions include transforming church into an alternative way of life, standing in solidarity with communities experiencing oppression, and encouraging spiritual practices that inform social activism.
Starting at dawn, vans arrive at Place St. Sernin, disgorging bric-a-brac and transforming the church square in the medieval center into a sprawling flea market.
It refers to Cordoba, Spain — the capital of Muslim conquerors who symbolized their victory over the Christian Spaniards by transforming a church there into the world's third-largest mosque complex.
The seven-page spread included reports on two transformed churches.
With a keen succession of tracking shots amid crowds at a market and a church, he transforms the sheer scale of the city and the vast number of residents in similarly desperate straits into a symphonic lament for the human condition.
A Cars.com commercial transformed the church lobby into a medieval castle.
A century and a half later, the French Revolution transformed the church into a military hospital.
An hour before another Election Day's dawn in Elyria, several dozen voters were already waiting for the polls to open at a church transformed into a secular space of civic duty.
The conversation is taking place in Oran Mor, a deconsecrated church transformed into a bar and restaurant in Glasgow's West End, which Gray the painter has been decorating for the past four years.
Many directors exploited the friction between the counterculture and the culture, but Penn also explored the gaps between hippies and their older sympathizers — especially between Arlo's pals and Alice and Ray Brock Pat Quinn and James Broderickk), who transform a deconsecrated church in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, into a nonconformist enclave.
In Harsent's perpetual face-off between the sacred and the profane, the sacred usually blinks first: "The Queen Bee Canticles" shows us the priest of a Norman church transformed into a "spinning ball of bees", their queen "so thrilled with his passion she stung / his lips, his tongue, his eardrums, his eyelids, his eyeballs".
