Every Christmas and Easter St Stephen's delivers a card to every household in the parish. The card advertises the times of our services, but also offers an opportunity to get people thinking about an aspect of these significant stories. This is the front of the card I have designed for this Easter which has gone off the the printers today, the back reads
jesus on trial
despised? rejected? betrayed? let down? traumatised? friendless? innocent? son of god?
you have done it again - fantastic - love it!
Posted by: roy | March 04, 2005 at 12:46 PM
Excellent. Do you mind if I display it during our Good Friday Youth event?
Posted by: EasyRew | March 04, 2005 at 08:20 PM
That is fantastic.
Posted by: Mike | March 06, 2005 at 04:12 PM
Amazing stuff, yet again!
Posted by: Matt | March 08, 2005 at 04:27 PM
This is fantastic.
Can I use it for my youthwork, please.
Posted by: Barrie | March 10, 2005 at 11:58 AM
barrie, thanks for asking. of course you may use the image for youthwork - i hope it will be useful
cheers
ben
Posted by: ben | March 10, 2005 at 12:03 PM
Absolutely love that postcard. Not sure how big your town is, but I would think about trying to send it to everyone.
Blessings,
Jesse
Posted by: Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain | March 11, 2005 at 10:02 PM
brilliant!
Posted by: bobbie | March 12, 2005 at 12:30 AM
Incredible. It's quite amazing how many world-changing people have at some time been arrested. Gandhi, Martin Luter King, Mandela, Hugh Grant...
Posted by: David | March 12, 2005 at 06:24 PM
Powerful.
Thank you.
Posted by: stephanie | March 12, 2005 at 08:01 PM
As a former student at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, I'm sure linking to this will annoy several of my former classmates - and their sensibilities about this Jesus person.
But that's what he looks like to me. Closer to my past than I'd like to admit...
I remember a Christmas card of a pregnant black teenaged girl...that was you, too, wasn't it? Powerful, amazing stuff.
Posted by: Steve F. | March 13, 2005 at 06:35 PM
hey that's pretty awesome - are you a graphic designer/photographer by trade? i think its really cool that you use your gifts to serve God
Posted by: Ben | March 13, 2005 at 11:20 PM
thanks for all your comments in answer to a few of them .... jesse, the size of my town is 7-8 million as i live in London UK! Steve, yes it was me that did the christmas card. Ben, i'm not a designer but a youth minister - although i am trying to learn a few things about photography.
cheers
ben
Posted by: ben | March 14, 2005 at 08:23 AM
Wow!! I really like that.
Posted by: brenda | March 15, 2005 at 07:50 AM
Pretentious, twee, crap, and typically liberal middle class. Not to mention a poor attempt to plagarise that awful Christmas card image of the Blessed Virgin.
If you want to get people thinking about the easter story why don't you produce something that makes them think about how it applies to their lives. This means learning something about the kind of lives people in your area enjoy or suffer, and creating something that will engage them on that level.
I'm sorry, but I fail to see how something like this will engage the affluent gentry of Canonbury, or those who live in its deprived pockets. About the only people who this will appeal are arty-farty tossers (so, then again, perhaps it will appeal to Canonbury's gentry!?!).
Which reminds me, you need to target different ideas at different groups. E.g. the gentry of Canonbury Road and the council slums of Essex Road will probably require having the easter story sold to them in different ways.
Posted by: Johnny B Goode | December 28, 2006 at 09:28 PM