Church Tells Artist to Remove Mural of Christ
The Philadelphia Inquirer
By David O'Reilly
PENNSYLVANIA - Luminous and translucent, commanding earth and sky, the risen Christ is too vast to be contained within the borders of artist Lothar Speer's mural. When he finished his headless Jesus in 1995, Speer believed his "ethereal vision" would reside "for a long, long time" in Bustleton's Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church. After Calvary Lutheran dissolved in the fall due to dwindling membership, a Ukrainian Baptist congregation bought the church. Early this month, the leadership of First Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Church informed him that it wanted the painting gone.[link]
By David O'Reilly
PENNSYLVANIA - Luminous and translucent, commanding earth and sky, the risen Christ is too vast to be contained within the borders of artist Lothar Speer's mural. When he finished his headless Jesus in 1995, Speer believed his "ethereal vision" would reside "for a long, long time" in Bustleton's Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church. After Calvary Lutheran dissolved in the fall due to dwindling membership, a Ukrainian Baptist congregation bought the church. Early this month, the leadership of First Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Church informed him that it wanted the painting gone.[link]
