There is a metaphor in here somewhere. Which is better, decay or restoration? Caption this.

When Pendleton Ward does Churchy art 

True restoration requires the ability of original creation.

Creation, Fall, Recension

Churches of through a life stages that take it through birth, adolescence, peak adulthood, decline/decay, and inevitably death. But through innovation and evolution in the way of doing church its life can be restored and revitalized for future generations. These three portraits express the stages I described that a church goes through.

Was trying to come up with something using Paleo-Orthodoxy or possibly Stone-Campbell. Creative juices were stymied however and I have given up.

Not being much of a news reader I hadn't heard of this. Now the following post makes sense.

http://theologicalscribbles.blogspot.com/2012/08/scream.html

The Defiguration of Jesus

or 

The Transfiguration of Jesus

or

The Detransfiguration of Jesus

or

The Transmogrification of Jesus

FWIW, I did a blog post using this amateur attempt at art restoration as a metaphor: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix/2012/08/restoring-jesus.html

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