Items tagged with: cross

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Lenses Remember old-school 3D glasses? The ones with red cellophane for one eye and blue for the other? If you watch an old 3D movie without them, an excellent thing happens: You immediately know something’s wrong. The image is doubled, the colors are off, and it looks all wonky. But this is much better than something being be wrong and you don’t know it. Else you might sail along in […]

Living the Status Quo Ante

Jesus and the Way
What kinds of things do you hear people say when they speak of the Christian life? Do they — do you — center on God's rules and justice? Do you center on God's heart for human flourishing? Both are part of it, but the focus makes a world of difference. And focus requires a lens through which to see.
On a patch of land, down a dirt road, around a hill, between two Colorado mountain towns, there is an old family graveyard that dates from the time of settlers moving to the west in North America. It’s not known how many are buried there, and only one of the graves is marked with a stone. Marking the whole of it is an old and worn wooden cross, adorned with […]

An Old Rugged Cross

SHOP-BUY: Film & Photography
In an old pioneer graveyard in Colorado, an old worn wooden cross watches over an unknown number of buried. The cross may well stand taller than the mountain behind it.
In between two small towns in the Colorado mountains, there is a tiny family graveyard that dates from the time settlers moved into the western regions of North America. They found it well to mark the site with a rugged cross made from the materials of the day: horse harnesses and barbed wire. This image catches the cross at dusk, watched over by moon, a mountain, and a bright star. […]

Sacred Sunset

SHOP-BUY: Film & Photography
A tiny family graveyard dates from the time of the American west. A cross marks the place, marked with barbed wire, as a sunset moon and mountain look on.
Across Iceland, you can find many, many local churches. Sometimes a church is close to a large home or farm, sometimes in a town. Others, like the one whose graveyard is pictured here, are between towns, situated among pastures and fields along a highway. The small churches being spread generously among the local communities, the cemeteries are not large, and the dates on the crosses and headstones may cover large […]

Icelandic Sunset over Graveyard

SHOP-BUY: Film & Photography
Across Iceland, there are many local churches with small cemeteries. Here were three wooden crosses, highlighted by the long sunset of late autumn in Iceland.
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