{"id":15617,"date":"2012-08-02T09:31:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T15:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=15617"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:06:12","slug":"from-the-archives-these-hands-bring-me-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2012\/08\/from-the-archives-these-hands-bring-me-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"From the archives: “These Hands Bring Me Jesus”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Originally posted August 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

Periodically, people ask me about the image above, which is the image I use for my Facebook posts.\u00a0 The\u00a0brief blog item\u00a0below from 2010 explains. <\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThese Hands Bring Me Jesus.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s the name of an ambitious, surprisingly powerful project undertaken by photographer Steven Golder. <\/a>He\u2019s been taking photographs of hands \u2014 some of them breathtaking in their simplicity and beauty \u2014 but not just any hands.<\/p>\n

They are the hands of priests.<\/p>\n

Some of the poses are pious, others pedestrian. But each and every one tells a story about what it means to minister to people in a wide array of circumstances.<\/p>\n

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\nA few weeks back, Steve contacted me and said he was going to be in New York. He was planning to expand his project to include other vocations. Could he stop by the newsroom and take some pictures of my hands? I didn\u2019t quite know what to expect, but I liked his work and appreciated the impulse behind it. I agreed.<\/p>\n

He came up and spent some time wandering around our studio at NET. We interviewed him for \u201cCurrents.\u201d And he took several photographs of my hands. My favorite, I think, is the one at the top of this post.\u00a0 Yeah: that\u2019s my world in a nutshell.<\/p>\n

Check out the rest of Steve Golder\u2019s work at his website.<\/a>I think you\u2019ll like what you see. (He also describes the genesis of the project and how it was used during the Eucharistic Congress in Atlanta last year.) \u00a0 He\u2019s challenging us to look at the work we do, and the tools we use, in a new way.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also: I can\u2019t help but think some of these images would make beautiful greeting cards, or gifts for an ordination.\u00a0 They might even serve as the basis for an inspiring book on vocations.<\/p>\n

I hope Steve Golder\u2019s work finds a wider audience.\u00a0 He deserves it. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Read more: http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/12\/these-hands-bring-me-jesus.html#ixzz22P32D6oZ<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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