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Church record book that includes regularly recorded meeting minutes and church membership lists for Bethel Baptist Church in Wilkinson County, 1943-1956.

Church record book that includes regularly recorded meeting minutes and church membership lists for Bethel Baptist Church in Wilkinson County, 1874-1942.

In this third installment of “What Shall I do With My Life”, Thurman addressed the experience of community from the fluidity of consciousness. The line of delineation between life and death, love and hate, war and forgiveness are all discussed with regards to our own self-consciousness. Our experience of community is one with the unity of life and the aliveness of life. Still, it is the desire of man to stabilize those things that we need to guarantee our physical existence.

Sermon souvenir pamphlet

Sermon from Rev. Paul F. M. Zahl on the transfer of guilt from the guilty to the innocent, emphasizing that this allows for hope, transformation, and a newfound moral responsibility to do good.

Sermon from Bishop Kenneth L. Carder on John the Baptist's crucial role in Advent, asserting that genuine preparation for Christmas necessitates repentance and embracing the transformative identity that Jesus offers.

Sermon from Rev. Eugenia Gamble on reassurance of God's love and promise.

Sermon from Rev. Paul F. M. Zahl on the fundamental question of how individuals can find meaning and acceptane in their lives through Christ's life, death, and resurrection.

The program of the joint annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, held in virtulally, from November 29-December 10, 2020.

A large format calligraphy brush, likely made with goat hair with a wooden handle. This brush is on the right in the first image.

A large format calligraphy brush, likely made with goat hair with either a bone or horn handle. The handle is engraved with the characters, [insert here], which roughly translate to "[insert translation]." This brush is on the left of the first image.

A large format calligraphy brush, likely made with goat hair with a bamboo handle. This brush is in the center of the first image.

An inkstone engraved on five sides with various scenes of a crowd gathered in the gardens of a large pavilion. The inverse of the stone is engraved with the text of the Lanting Xu (兰亭集序; 난정집서), a famous piece of Chinese calligraphy considered to have been written by the famous calligrapher, Wang Xizhi (王羲之; 왕희지), during the Jin dynasty (266-420 BCE). On the front of the stone, a lone scholar, possibly Wang Xizhi, sits at a desk overlooking a pond which makes up the ink well and plain.

This calligraphy plays on the sounds of Chinese to evoke the name of God (Yahweh) and describe him (Jesus Christ) as the most "precious stone," the cornerstone.

An embroidered depiction of the original building of the Chongkyo Methodist Church on silk. Chongkyo Methodist Church was built and founded by missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Seoul, Korea, in the early 1900s and was part of the Seoul Circuit of the Korea Conference. The piece shows the original church building with a selection of Korean figures, men and women, approaching or walking by the church. A dedication is embroidered across the top of the work.

Evoking the scene of Jesus' baptism, this linocut work depicts a man holding a shell above a boy who kneels beside a river. Two men and a woman look on as a dove descends from the curling clouds gathered over the mountainous background.

Drawing on scenes of gathering and shared meals in the Bible, specifically the wedding in Cana, Jesus feeding the five thousand, and the Last Supper, this linocut depicts a group of men, women, and children gathered and sharing food and drink. At the center of this gathering is a large ornamental ewer.

Artist Statement: "Seongsan Bridge appears over the River Han. Across the bridge stands Lotte World Tower, a 123-floor skyscraper that officially opened in 2017. A cross is floating on the river. Martin Luther, while reminding us of his speech at the Diet of Worms, stands just next to Jesus, pointing to him. Several people surrounding them are watching the event of Jesus' crucufixion. All of them are figures borrowed from Yun-Bok Shin's genre paintings. There are also other figures borrowed from Hong-Do Kim's paintings.

Artist Statement: "In the background of the painting appears the 1938 edition of the Korean Bible--especially, Romans 1:17 ("the righteous will live by faith"). The cross of Jesus Christ stands in the middle between Martin Luther [(1483-1546)] on the left and Philipp Melanchton [sic][(1497-1560)] on the right. The cross and the three persons beneath it--John the Baptist, Chranach [sic], and Luther-- originally appeared in the alter painting entitled Law and Grace.

Artist Statement: "The title of this work, <MES>, means that all the people looking at Jesus are all my various aspect. So I named me as <MES> in plural. In the background of the painting appears the painting <SSireum: Korean wrestling> by Kim Hong-Do (artist of the late Joseon dynasty). All of them are figures borrowed from this painting. In the middle of this work, I borrowed the Crucifixion from <Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece 1515>, Matthias Grünewald is a 16th century German painter.

An eight panel folding screen supporting calligraphy of an interpretation of the Eight Beatitudes (Matthew 5) in Chinese. The artist, Rev. Eun-deok Choi, has signed the work with his sobriquet, 義山 (의산; Righteous Mountain). The artist, Rev. Choi, was an acquaintance of the former President of Methodist Theological University in Seoul, Bong-bae Park, and may have originally gifted the work to him. Park, in turn, was a friend and colleague of former Emory University President and US Ambassador to Korea, James T. Laney, and possibly gifted the work to him.