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Yearly Archives: 2015
Sewing seeds of hope in South Africa
This article was originally published in a shorter form on ArtWay.eu. All photos are courtesy of the Keiskamma Trust; click to enlarge. Created by about 130 Xhosa—mainly women—living along the Keiskamma River in South Africa’s Eastern Cape [1], the monumental … Continue reading
Why Jesus’s most incredible claim gained widespread acceptance
No major religion has a founder who claimed to be God, though some small short-lived cults have had them. While there have been self-deceived people in history who have made divine claims, they never were able to make their assertions … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, History, Theology
Tagged divinity of Jesus, origins of Christianity
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Roundup: Liquor-store Jesus, Leviticus-inspired art, Hollywood actor talks grace, and more
What would Jesus do if he saw a stray shopping cart in a parking lot? Watch the video below to find out. Be like Jesus! “111th Street Jesus” by Jim Hinch: This Image journal article from last year profiles muralist … Continue reading
A Prayer for Migrants
The Rev. Dr. Sam Wells, vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in the heart of London, issued a statement yesterday on the migrant crisis, concluding with the following prayer: Wilderness God, your Son was a displaced person in Bethlehem, a refugee in … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Non-Western Art
Tagged isaac fanous, jesus as refugee, migrant crisis
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Jesus as the New David
This illumination is from an eighth-century copy of Cassiodorus’s sixth-century Commentary on the Psalms. (The manuscript is sometimes referred to as the Durham Cassiodorus because of the cathedral library that houses it.) Created in the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, it … Continue reading
Niño Jesus
From the Smithsonian’s website: “Devotional figures of the infant Jesus became popular in Puerto Rico during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. . . . An unknown craftsman carved this small figure in the act of benediction, or blessing, with an … Continue reading
Johnny Cash’s “Gospel Road”
Despite all Johnny Cash’s chart-topping hits—“I Walk the Line,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,” etc.—his lesser-known movie The Gospel Road is supposedly his proudest work. [1] This 1973 feature film was a labor of love: he and his wife … Continue reading
Rowan Williams talks Jesus art
In 2004 Dr. Rowan Williams, then archbishop of Canterbury, wrote an introduction to the exhibition catalog for “Presence: Images of Christ for the Third Millennium,” reflecting on the challenges inherent to the task of representing Jesus in art and how … Continue reading
The Jesus Question 