"Piss Christ" and Other Holy Week Controversies

WITHOUT CONTROVERSY how would we know it was Holy Week? This year offered a feast of religious art controversies. A group of Christians in France attacked Andres Serrano's controversial work, "Piss Christ." Michigan Pastor Rob Bell's artist-inspired book, "Love Wins" continued to infuriate Christian Fundamentalists; and there was even a new mural in Utah of the Mormon Temple in flames stirring up debate. It all makes the 2007 advice on PBS Bill Moyers by Nun & Art Historian Sister Wendy Beckett even more prescient when she advised, (I'm paraphrasing) Art is what you make of it. What you bring to it is how you will experience it. Thank you Sister Wendy for providing some perspective for Holy Week art controversy.