Author: Admin-ConfessingEvangelical

As I said at the end of my previous post, Justin Lewis-Anthony suggests that Bosch’s Christ Mocked reflects two themes concerning the nature of Christ that “speak particularly to us today”. Each theme is concerned with answering...

For Holy Week, I’ve been reading Justin Lewis-Anthony’s book Circles of Thorns: Hieronymus Bosch and Being Human. This book is an extended reflection on Bosch’s painting Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns). I’d seen the...

“You just shot an unarmed man!” “Well, he should have armed himself…” – from Unforgiven. Here’s a passage from the gospels that I find puzzling and difficult to understand, particularly the highlighted words: He said to...