Mesa Easter Pageant – Jesus The Christ

Mesa Easter Pageant ten virgins

Last Thursday evening found my family enjoying the Mesa Arizona Easter Pageant, one of the world’s largest annual outdoor Easter pageants. In Jesus the Christ the story is told of the Savior’s birth, ministry, death, and resurrection through speech, music, dance, and drama. The pageant is not a passion play focusing on the crucifixion but [...]

Carl Bloch: The Master’s Hand

Christ Healing the Sick at Bethesda

Today Jill and I attended the exhibition Carl Bloch: The Master’s Hand. Featured are five larger-than-life altarpieces. Four of these have come from Lutheran churches in Denmark and Sweden, removed for the first time since they were originally installed in the late 1800s. The fifth is Christ Healing the Sick at Bethesda, which was acquired [...]

James Tissot Paints The Birth Of Christ

The Adoration of the Shepherds

James Tissot created a series of 350 watercolors of incidents in the life of Christ. Here I use some of his paintings to illustrate the birth of Christ, along with scriptures from Matthew and Luke. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before [...]

Seven Artists Paint New Testament Women

Mary holding child

The New Testament is rich in the accounts of courageous, humble, beautiful women. The same is true of the women of the Old Testament. These women shaped history with their influence, faith, and … mistakes. Of the seven women pictured here, five of them we do not know their names. We are left to associate [...]

C. S. Lewis on Religion

C. S. Lewis

Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

George W Bush on Religion

George W Bush

George W Bush talking about religion.

Meet Mormons at the new Mormon.org

Mormon.org Meet Mormons section

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