BeaMidbar

Sermons and Reflections by Bethany Austin

Tag: Holy Week

The Outraged Christ
March 29, 2024

The Outraged Christ

The first thing that I notice about The Outraged Christ is that it is made of wood.
A human body portrayed with wood in such a raw manner puts me in mind of the creation narrative in Genesis 1.

Holy Saturday
April 16, 2022

Holy Saturday

How busy was the tomb?
This vast space falls silent sometimes; I’ve seen it.
Silent with the hum of the hearts and prayers of a thousand warm, living bodies, and silent as the grave, all quiet and dark when only I make my pilgrimage through this great nothingness, this naked vacuum clad in a sandstone veil.