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Ben Steckelberg

Ben Steckelberg

Ben, who lives in southeast Minneapolis, is in the MDiv Interreligious Chaplaincy program and plans to work as a hospital chaplain after graduating (Spring ’25). Currently, most of his academic work revolves around mysticism and/or ethics, and he also enjoys making, experiencing, and thinking about art.

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Recent Encounters with Theaster Gates’ Black Vessel for a Saint: Viewing the Sacred through Locked Steel Doors

By | on 05, Jul 2023 |   theology and the arts Public Theology

Black Vessel for a Saint sits on the southwest end of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden with an air of incongruous monumentality. A 20-foot-tall cylinder of coal-black bricks, the Vessel rests on a rai[...]

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