Speaker Bio:
Rev. Jess Shults is a pastor, teacher, and keynote speaker who brings deep pastoral wisdom to conversations about leadership, formation, and life together in divided times. She spent nearly two decades serving a local congregation, where she learned to guide communities through disagreement with patience, clarity, and care. At The Colossian Forum, Jess works closely with partners to translate formation practices into real-world settings. She holds an M.Div. from Western Theological Seminary and enjoys life offstage with her husband and their two sons.
Cain and Abel, Netherlandish, 17th century
In his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us, aboloshing the law, with its commandments and ordinances that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross putting to death that hostility through it. (Ephesians 2:14b-16)
Adriaen de Vries (Netherlandish, The Hague ca. 1545–1626 Prague)
Cain and Abel (?), 17th century
Netherlandish,
Bronze; H. 10-1/2 (26.7 cm.); W. 9-1/2 in. (24.1 cm.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964 (64.101.1562)
http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/203982