Stations of the Resurrection
Stations of the Resurrection is a downloadable contemplative show meant to serve all kinds of communities during the season of Easter.
How it works
When you purchase and install this Art Show, viewers will enjoy a fully-immersive experience as they visit each station to read and reflect. Each poster has a QR code linking to the meditation fort that station here on my website.
Getting started:
Download the images and print them out at your local print shop. Watch the how-to video here.
Install the show in your space.
Enjoy the show!
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Artist Statement
According to the scriptures, nothing seemingly changed in the world on the day that Jesus rose from the grave. Rome didn’t stop being in power. The religious leaders who asked for a crucifixion didn’t lose their jobs. It took a while before the followers of Jesus stopped hiding for their lives in a room together. It was all very small at first. So small that you’d think it wasn’t any kind of event at all.
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I think if we’re honest with ourselves, we may feel the same way at our modern Easter services. We wake up. Put on something a little nicer than usual. Go to a sacred ceremony that has pulled out all the celebratory jazz hands shouting, “He’s risen! He is risen indeed!”… only to walk out of that service to a nice lunch in a world that feels exactly the same as it did before the service.
Does Jesus’ resurrection do anything? I mean that’s kind of a scandalous question in the face of a multi-billion dollar industry built upon the premise that it did, and I’m not arguing that it didn’t happen. I believe that it did. But my question is, did it do anything? What does it do for us today? Did the resurrection happen one time or is it still happening in our midst?
The most common response I hear is something to the effect of Jesus rose from the dead, defeating death, and if I believe in that, then I will find a good life on the other side of death. This art show is not about that… because what happens after this life is only something we can speculate, nothing we can really experience as we are alive. So let’s sidestep resurrection as afterlife for now.
What does it mean to experience resurrection now?
The world may not have changed the morning Jesus was resurrected, but Jesus changed. Then his resurrection encounters with his followers irrevocably changed them and changed their communities, and that changed the world.
The premise for these station meditations is that resurrection changes the way we see everything.
Jesus started his ministry saying “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Biblically speaking, to repent doesn’t mean to feel sorry or muster up a healthy dose of regret. It means to undergo a complete 180 degree change of mind, heart, and perspective. And on the other side of His resurrection encounters, we see this about-face change in his followers.
I believe we are still invited to a perspective change that changes the world. At least in the world we inhabit. Each one of the stations draws from the resurrection story and invites us into a change of perspective: one that affected the followers back then, and one that invites the followers right now.
This Stations of the Resurrection art show is available for spiritual formation for all kinds of communities of faith.
Station 1: Jesus is the one risen from the dead
Station 2: The Followers Discover the Empty Tomb
Station 3: The Risen One Appears First to Mary Magdalen, Apostle to Apostles
Station 4: The Risen One Appears on the Road
Station 5: The Risen One is Recognized in the Breaking of Bread
Station 6: The Risen One Appears to the Community of Followers
Station 7: The Risen One Breathes Peace & Gives the Power to Forgive
Station 8: The Risen One Strengthens the Faith of the Doubter
Station 9: The Risen One provides for the Followers
Station 10: The Risen One Forgives and Entrusts to Feed His Sheep
Station 11: The Risen One Sends the Followers Into the World
Station 12: The Risen One Ascends to Heaven
Station 13: Upper Room Vigil for the Gift from the Risen One
Station 14: The Risen One Sends the Spirit
This Stations of the Resurrection art show is available for spiritual formation for all kinds of communities of faith.