S&S noticed this too late in 2018 to include for Hannukah last year, so for Hannukah 2019, we’re asking the following “festival of lights” questions of this Comic Vine list:
Chag sameach!
Sacred and Sequential‘s own Elizabeth Coody was featured by the Sioux City Journal this past week for her work at Morningside College and recent participation in the “Graphic Novels and Comics across the Humanities” conference. Food and Lifestyle reporter Earl Horlyk notes Dr. Coody’s astute observation that illustrations of Jesus as Caucasian or even quite muscular say “more about an artist’s interpretation than anything in the Bible.”
Additionally, S&S would like to further applaud our colleague for the wonderful sentiment behind her quote: “Well, I think it’s a sin to depict Jesus as dull.”
Professor James F. McGrath (aka ReligionProf) sits down with Sacred and Sequential‘s own A. David Lewis to discuss Kismet, Man of Fate from publisher A Wave Blue World. This March 2019 episode of the ReligionProf Podcast also features linkbacks to S&S‘s discussion of the Second Coming debacle and Matthew Brake’s news of the new Religion and Comics series from Claremont Press. It all comes full circle!
[Spoiler warning: Do not read until you have seen Avengers: Endgame.]
Following our previous posting, this art from Kristina Amuan was too good and too touching not to share.
We promise to return to sober, objective scholarship shortly, once we’ve wiped away all these tears.
It’s film, not comics. But given that it’s a rare Muslim character in that medium’s superhero genre based in comics, we’re opting to include this touching Twitter thread on the impact of one man’s sacrifice repercussing all across this blockbuster narrative; it’s a testimony to the principles behind Islam, Judaism, and many of the world’s great religions.
"..And whoever saves one, it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.."(Quran 5:32)
And without realizing the MCU manifested the most heroic act a Muslim could do, saving Tony Starks life that one day on May 2, 2008, Ho Yinsen indirectly ends up saving the whole universe in 2023. pic.twitter.com/ZSoyOjJvad— Maliha (@malihaness) May 8, 2019