Ideas Relay (7)

“‘Nudum Christum, nudus sequere’ – naked we follow the naked Christ. A cry from the Middle Ages proclaiming that to follow Christ we, like Christ, must leave behind us everything which might stand between ourselves and God. We shall have no concern for wealth, for riches or for influence but freely embrace poverty and simplicity. Many historic writers developed the themes of naked poverty and renunciation in their theologies while others like St Francis looked on the poverty of the naked and crucified Christ in a more literal way, standing before the Bishop and people of Assisi as the young Francis turned his life from the world, and laying naked on the bare earth when dying and awaiting the final journey to God. ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there’. (Job 1:21)”

Glenn Lowcock

Ideas relay (4)

“The artist I was responding to gave me the passage “And surely, I am with you always, to the end of the age” out of Matt 28. I kept thinking about how Christ is “running the race” with us to the end. To me that race often feels like a marathon. It’s a journey through a lifetime, we are encouraged to run it well and to the end. But maybe it’s more like a relay race, passing the torch from one generation to the next, each one of us having our own part of the journey until we reach the “end of the age.” This running with the fire of the Holy Spirit, running with the fullness of the generations, through time, through space, between the physical and the spiritual...to the end... is what inspired this image.”

Bobbette Rose