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Birdman, by Joe Light
Joe Light was a towering, often disturbing figure in his Memphis community. He aligned himself with the prophets and considered himself a kind of Moses....
Shtetl Revealed | Language of the Village (inset), by Tom Glick
Tom Glick, who taught history at Boston University, is an artist as well as a historian. He uses pages of the Forward, an iconic Yiddish daily, in his layered art....
Headlands and Furrows (top) and Winter Field (bottom), by Abner Hershberger
The work of octogenarian artist Abner Hershberger reveals the religious sensibilities and Midwest landscapes of his youth....
Joseph and Mary: Wedding Portrait, by Jim Larson
During Advent and Christmas, Christians hear stories of prophets, shepherds, night skies, angel announcements, a star, traveling Magi, and wanderers....
Amen: A Prayer for the World, featuring the work of Christina Saj (left) and Hisham El Zeiny (right)
The exhibit Amen: A Prayer for the World began in Cairo with the works of 30 Egyptian artists. By the time it traveled to St....
The gallery at Nashville’s Downtown Presbyterian Church
Downtown Presbyterian Church, known for its artists-in-residence program and studio spaces (see Carol Howard Merritt’s “Revived by the arts”), is now bri...
Five Books of Moses, by Carole P. Kunstadt
The viewer engages anew with the Hebrew Bible through Carole P. Kunstadt’s manuscript blocks....
A Prayer of Waiting; Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; Watery Chaos; and Coffee/Maker, by Paul Soupiset
Titles are clockwise from top. Artist, graphic designer, illustrator, and self-proclaimed typophile, Paul Soupiset has a growing body of illustrations in books like Judith Sutera’s The...
Saintly Ruin, Corazón 1, Fear No Evil, Broken Sinner, and Wipe My Fragility Clean (clockwise from top left), by Marisol McKee
A mixture of playfulness, whimsy, profound faith, and, well, creepiness hums through the works of Marisol McKee....
Mask of Fear, by Sergio Gomez
Sergio Gomez’s works are explorations of personhood and identity....
Seeds of Harmony (series), by Jeff Kennel
Many of Jeff Kennel’s photographic works are based on world travels, but a recent series of photos records a gathering of world cultures on a small plot of land in New Columbia, a large housing pro...
Upper Room (Judas/Jesus/John), by Alfonse Borysewicz
In his triptych Upper Room, Brooklyn artist Alfonse Borysewicz depicts “the drama of Holy Thursday with the focus on Judas (pointing and distant on the viewers’ left), Jesus (girded with a...
Selection from Drawings in Church, Vol. 3, by John Hendrix
John Hendrix’s work has appeared in a variety of publications, from children’s books to Rolling Stone and the New Yorker....
Lenten Departure, Jumping Off Point 1, and Jumping Off Point 2, by Mary Cahill Farella
Mary Cahill Farella, a painter based in Framingham, Massachusetts, was known for her landscape paintings of the cliffs and pastures of Ireland....
Diptych / A Spiritual House (digital laminate to black aluminum) by Deborah Risa Mrantz
Deborah Risa Mrantz, founder of Guildworks iAbraham Ministries, works with socially conscious artists at the converging planes of Abrahamic traditions....
Faithmarks, Sweet T Studios in conjunction with St. Marks Church, Chattanooga
Tattoos, according to tattoo artist Danny Siviter, represent some of the most permanent statements a person can make....
Tomorrow, by Rick LaMarre
Artist and illustrator Rick LaMarre imagines what the disciple Peter would do the day or two after denying Jesus. Would he return to fishing, the world he knows?...
Kindred, by Roger Hutchison
It was a simple oak table adorned with plain dishes and a bounty of fresh fruits and vegetables.” So begins Roger Hutchison’s book The Painting Table: A Journal of Loss and Joy, a combinat...
Baptism of Xenia, by Jennifer J. Wilson
Jennifer J. Wilson, a Boston photographer, worked on a documentary project centered on parish life at the city’s Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral.
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