An Unlikely Friendship: The Artist and the Pastor
THE BAY CITIZEN
March 8, 2011
CALIFORNIA--Last week, Kathleen Folden pleaded guilty to criminal mischief but will not serve any jail time for the destruction of an artwork by Enrique Chagoya last October. She will be required to receive counseling but will only need to pay $2,991 in restitution —less than half the amount requested by prosecutors. This is not a new kind of story — Folden is not the first nor will be the last to violently object to a painting — but the stranger-than-fiction end to this familiar story has to do with the unlikely friendship Enrique Chagoya formed with the young evangelical pastor of the local Loveland church, Jonathan Wiggins. In this age of vitriol and knee-jerk reactions, it is a welcome surprise when two people from profoundly different mindsets work so doggedly to understand each other. [link]
March 8, 2011
CALIFORNIA--Last week, Kathleen Folden pleaded guilty to criminal mischief but will not serve any jail time for the destruction of an artwork by Enrique Chagoya last October. She will be required to receive counseling but will only need to pay $2,991 in restitution —less than half the amount requested by prosecutors. This is not a new kind of story — Folden is not the first nor will be the last to violently object to a painting — but the stranger-than-fiction end to this familiar story has to do with the unlikely friendship Enrique Chagoya formed with the young evangelical pastor of the local Loveland church, Jonathan Wiggins. In this age of vitriol and knee-jerk reactions, it is a welcome surprise when two people from profoundly different mindsets work so doggedly to understand each other. [link]
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