Friday, October 15, 2010

The View from My Window: Rapidly Increasing Religious Diversity

My office window faces an alley where a local artist, Michael Brown, is renovating a mural that he originally painted some 20 years ago.  It had faded and peeled, so he's putting on a fresh coat of paint--and also making a few changes in detail to modernize the work.

The woman with the academic gown and cap had been holding a Latin book, but now seems to be texting.  And the woman carrying the large stack of books was originally depicted with free flowing curly locks, but now she has donned a Muslim headscarf.  The world is changing before my eyes!



However, when I look up, I notice that the spire of the University United Methodist Church remains unchanged: