David B. Gowler is the Pierce Chair of Religion at Oxford College of Emory University and senior faculty fellow, Center for Ethics, Emory University. He is the author of several books; dozens of articles, book chapters, and book reviews; and is the editor or coeditor of over 30 books. His books on the parables include What are They Saying about the the Parables?, The Parables after Jesus, Howard Thurman: Sermons on the Parables.
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Painting urges viewers to speak and act as Jesus did in an inhumane world
Max Beckmann's 1917 painting "Christ and the Sinner" can be read as a call to speak and act as Jesus did: putting ourselves in the role of Jesus in these stories.
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Rembrandt's technique sheds light on how parables work
Like Rembrandt's paintings, the parables of Jesus illuminates some things as clear as day. Other aspects become clearer as we learn more and more about the first-century contexts of Jesus and his followers.
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Artist illuminates Jesus' radical message in the Way of the Cross
Art: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel's "Stations of the Cross" paintings espouse Jesus' program of liberation in their images of oppression in Latin America, showing us how to bridge the gap between Jesus' era and our own.
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'The Mote and the Beam' gives insight into COVID-19 debates
Commentary: Jesus' humorous yet serious warning can be hard to heed as this pandemic is prolonged. It seems the "beams" are in other people's eyes, not ours, and they are blind to both the danger and the solutions.
