Lent, we often remind ourselves this time of year, does not exist that we may rend our souls. Pastor Chris Seay at Houston’s Ecclesia has taken it a step further by commissioning tattoos for the explicit purpose of decorating the flesh for Lent – and, of course, long after.
Seay’s church offered ten different tattoo forms for Stations of the Cross (some stations apparently didn’t translate well to this medium[?]). The response was overwhelming, as more than 50 have so far stepped forward to get Lenten ink.
Art is important at Ecclesia, so naturally the event created an opportunity to do a photographic installation. Some stunning work was done.
Sounds like plain-old good evangelism to me. And a heralding, perhaps, of things to come.