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ONE CLEAR THING
This Easter Meet His Gaze
How art has shaped our connection with Christ and our idea of heaven
One Clear Thing is my Sunday reflection on what religion means to me. Today, on Easter Sunday, I am sharing the thoughts I have had this Lenten season. I do not believe my religion is “the correct one,” I don’t believe we need to believe in the same things to learn from each other. I will not stand for anyone saying anything against athiests. No worries if you don’t want to hear my thought on “Sky Daddy,” but I do welcome conversation. (God is not a man…)
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During the first full year of WWII a commercial advertiser created the most popular piece of Christian devotional art and it took over the walls of every house of worship in America to become the most well-known painting in the country.
For 60 years this image has shaped the vision of Christ people hold in their hearts. This wistful, undemanding (or even connecting) blond Jesus hung over the heads of children as they learned that Jesus loves them, this they know.
He just wouldn’t look at them.
