Mark Wyatt McGinnis I have been having a terrible time coming to grips with the recent Texas school shooting. The parents of the slain...

“Living with Pain and Appreciating life: A Stoic’s Approach” A sermon by Mark W. McGinnis delivered on July 8, 2018 at the Boise...

I believe we have reached a tipping point in our nation’s current crisis. In eight months we have plunged into circumstances I would not...

“Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people’s weaknesses. Avoid being...

The following is a guest opinion piece I wrote for the Idaho Statesman newspaper in Boise Idaho (published April 19, 2016). The article...

Gitanjali 82, acrylic on paper, 9″ X 9″, 2003, Mark W. McGinnis For better or worse I have always had a desire for understanding. In...

(This lecture began in a dream and continued into wakefulness where I could not stop giving the lecture) “Good morning incoming painting...

Cover image for “Poplar Leaf Study: Version One” – acrylic on paper, 11″ X 4″, 2013, Mark W. McGinnis I sit in my studio contentedly...

Snake River Basin: Salmon River, 11″ X 14″, acrylic on 300lb. paper, 2013, Mark W. McGinnis Once upon a time (and space) there was an...

That seems to be the message. Look through the movie and TV guides. People with guns killing other people. We entertain ourselves...

(note: It does seem a strange time of the year to be writing on this topic but a request for input came from my Unitarian/Universalist...

Snake River Basin: Boise River and Willow, 11″ X14″, acrylic on 300lb. paper, 2012, Mark W. McGinnis In reading Edward Abbey’s 1968 book,...

It does not take an economist or scientist to see that to sustain consumer societies on their current trajectories the earth’s resources...

This world is filled with suffering and injustice. Where and when we have the ability we should try to lessen these problems. But in our...

Grand Canyon #4, Acrylic on Panel, 16" X 20", 2011, Mark W. McGinnis After over 40 years seriously trying to make the stuff, it seems a...

I met a seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, To glean eidolons. Lo, I or...

Whitman #5, 8" X 8", acrylic pn paper, 2010, Mark W. McGinnis Walt Whitman & the 21st Century The 1850’s of Walt Whitman’s most creative...

In particular the Hoh Rainforest was breathtaking–the great trees, mosses, ferns, birds, bugs–layers and layers of life, life that has...

from the Issa project, 8" X 8" 2008, Mark W. McGinnis What is significant? What is not significant? As with beauty this seems to be a...

Mice on Sauk Mt., acrylic on panel, 36" X 24", 2010, Mark W. McGinnis The old saying the “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is, of...