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Seek and Ye Shall Find! Everett Patterson, “José y Maria” (2014)

Image Search Game • Find the Biblical References

Originally published in Words of Grace, Grace Church Cathedral (Charleston, South Carolina), February 2026.

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2025-12-01
La Resurrezione: The Vatican Sculpture Born from Cold War Fear & Nuclear Anxiety

2025-11-29
Shame & Guilt Do Not Define Us

Originally published in Words of Grace, Grace Church Cathedral (Charleston, South Carolina), November 2025.

Reflection • Uses contemporary pop culture to clarify the difference between guilt (“I did wrong”) and shame (“I am wrong”). Connects that distinction to forgiveness, hope, and choosing light over self-condemnation.

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The Crowning: How Art Reveals the Shame Around Childbirth

2025-10-30
“Forgive us our Tresspassing”

Reflection • Interprets Banksy’s “Forgive us our trespassing” as a layered meditation on sin, boundary-crossing, and social critique.
Links the street art posture of “ask forgiveness, not permission” to confession, community, and the church’s call to welcome.

Originally published in Words of Grace, Grace Church Cathedral (Charleston, South Carolina), October 2025.

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2025-10-01
The missing nails in Dali’s “Christ of Saint John of the Cross” (1951)

Reflection • Compares Dalí’s crucifixion to St. John of the Cross’s sketch to ask what it means to picture forgiveness. Argues that the absent nails and crown reframe sin as “remembered no more”—mercy made visible.

Originally published in Words of Grace, Grace Church Cathedral (Charleston, South Carolina), September 2025.

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2025-09-01
The Concordia Apostolorum (Harmony) Icon

Reflection • Traces the icon of Peter and Paul embracing as a visual theology of disagreement held in communion. Uses Acts and Paul’s rebuke of Peter to ask whether our debates include neighbors—or push them from Christ’s love.

Originally published in Words of Grace, Grace Church Cathedral (Charleston, South Carolina), July 2025.

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2025-07-01
Saint Joseph, an image of Fatherhood

Reflection• Shows how apocryphal storytelling shaped centuries of Joseph’s depiction. Later, devotion reframed him as strong, present, and capable as demonstrated in Annigoni’s St. Joseph the Worker.

Originally published in Words of Grace, Grace Church Cathedral (Charleston, South Carolina), June 2025.

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2025-06-01
Leonardo’s “Virgin, Child and Saint Anne”: a Meditation on Motherhood

Reflection • Uses apocryphal tradition (especially the Golden Legend) to illuminate Saint Anne as Mary’s steady foundation in motherhood. Leonardo’s composition as “holding on and letting go”—a theology of maternal love across generations.

Originally published in Words of Grace, Grace Church Cathedral (Charleston, South Carolina), May 2025.

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2025-05-01
The Anastasis Icon

Reflection • Explains why Eastern “Anastasis” images show not only Christ rising, but Christ raising Adam and Eve—victory with beneficiaries in view. Sets the icon alongside Western Resurrection imagery to highlight universal redemption and the Harrowing of Hell.

Originally published in Words of Grace, Grace Church Cathedral (Charleston, South Carolina), April 2025.

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