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Thanks for the reminder. Lovely post.
I won’t argue with that, but I can point out one big difference between Jesus’ time and our own. The woman at the well was not on her way to an adulterers’ pride parade. She wasn’t trying to “cancel” Jesus for His hateful, adulteraphobic views.
One big similarity with our day is that Jesus was just as offensive to the elite of His day, as He is to the powers-that-be today. The reasons differ, of course.
Pretty nice painting!
That story is worth thinking about, as our media clamors for more and more divisiveness each hour.
Very well told as well, with having the painting as an additional treasure for us readers to view.
Those who cancel us today or mock us at their pride parade are today’s Roman soldiers and their supporters. And we forgive them as they know not what they do. There’s a bigger plan here.
*this was supposed to go with the previous comment.
It took me a while to recall the name. Jerry worked as a sign painter alongside Dalhart Windberg, who gained some esteem in Texas for his own art. My dad received the print of Parr’s painting when Windberg graciously offered to sell some of his old pal’s paintings as prints through his gallery.
Windberg too is a gifted painter. You can find more of his works at the link above.
One of my favorite sculptors is Ivan Mestrovic, who left many of his works scattered about at the University of Notre Dame. His “Christ and the Samaritan Woman” always seemed pleasant to me.