Painting of Christ

I like this image of Christ. So I though I would add it to my Blog for class. It gets me to think about the many portrayls of Christ and how each of them are very different from one another. The artist is Joseph Arthur, the musician.

My first Blog posting!! Can I say interesting?

I guess you would like to know where I am from, I grew up in Helena Montana. I have lived coast to coast. I lived in Tacoma, Washington while attending college and then decided to move to Worcester, Mass. to complete my undergraduate study in Art History at Clark University. Before moving to Pasadena to attend Fuller Theological Seminary I moved back to Montana to work at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena. I worked as an curatorial/administrative assistant and volunteer coordinator. The Holter is one of the few contemporary art museums in the state of Montana.

This is my second year at Fuller. I am in the Master of Theology program concentrating in Theology, culture, and the study of the arts. I always been curious about the intersection between Art and Theology. My church background is Lutheran and Baptist, What is interesting mixture don't you think? If you ask me where I am attending church now, I visit many different denonominational and non-denonominational churches on a regular basis.

I think what I want to get out of Transforming Contemporary Cultures is to engage many different aspects of the global culture and meet people where they are at. We as the church cannot expect people to change from looking from the outside to the inside. We as the church have be willing to understand where people are coming from whether that is the art world, the internet, or science. Understanding each of these differences can create community and unity and better understanding how one can see Christ.