04/10/2026
About the Artist: A special note about our visuals during Eastertide. Artwork by CJ Reuel. “To pray is it not the most active? Art is the act of concrete prayer.” -Nick Lindsey. Encountering the risen Christ, the disciples must have felt a lot of the same struggles to hope, and trust that we do given corrupt governments and suffering all around. After high hopes for a kingdom restored, Jesus died, and then rose and still, Israel was conquered. How to not live by bread alone (a concrete fulfilled desire), but to live by every word from the mouth of God? As Liz Bucur says “You can’t inspire people, can’t move them towards an affirmative vision of better futures, without the capacity to imagine and trust in possibilities beyond the current ceiling. Faith, however, you end up defining it, isn’t a luxury it’s the foundation.“ Nouwen clarifies that as people of faith, “. . . we cannot simply be persons who have well-formed opinions about the burning issues our time… To be truly fruitful a movement from the moral to the mystical is required. “ This movement allows us to act with integrity as Martin Luther King Jr. urged, “. . . It is possible to resist evil using means as pure as the ends you seek.”
