Fascinating episode of 99% Invisible, entitled “Your Own Personal Jesus” this morning. I grew up seeing this particular version of Jesus in any church I visited. Its ubiquity is only outdone by its singular creation story. I had NO idea that this image was painted by a man from Chicago in 1940.
These kinds of things always make me think about the “Sliding Doors’ problem. If that guy happens to get hit by a car when he was 15 years old, what does the world look like now? What does Christianity in the U.S. look like if that had happened?
Just fascinating to think about.
