Details about the project. A paragraph of two about the background and motivation, etc. Why use a comic format.
Why write this?
(Matthew here.)
Our world is bounded by science, so miracles don’t move me. But moral clarity does. And some of the teachings of the world’s traditions are pregnant with moral clarity. They ask us to deliver it into the world. Usually we can’t, with our limits and frailties. Sometimes we can, and our conscience soars.
Teachings don’t have to be exactly factually accurate, to bear transformative truth. Whether the Parable of the Good Samaritan was told five hundred times or none, whether it was perfectly transcribed or paraphrased, its transformative truth is unblemished. It points to a life beyond the biased barrier of “Us” versus “Them”. Other traditions surely teach the same, in different words. They are fingers pointing at the moon, each unique in its own way. Each with partisans too busy bickering their finger is better, to take in the moon it points to.
We all live lives ruled by compromises. Sometimes — maybe not often — we do as our conscience compels. This is one such time for me. May there be others.
May we build a world without outgroups.
Art details (a sub-heading)
The following are details worked into the art.
2-column arrangement as with the “Team” structure.
Only here, the photos should be on the left, with the commentary on the right.
Tabular Entries should include:
Jesus image then a bit of explanatory detail
Sophie (same)
Homeless person generic statistics on homelessness, mention how unhoused is preferred term
“Illegal immigrant” retirate that these people are being demonized.
Trans person some statistics. Include factoid that in the Talmud (the Judeo-Christian tradition) recognizes seven genders.
Drug addict some statistics
Muslim woman include that Judaism and Christianity at one point demanded hair be covered? And information on basing the person on the woman who won the right to take her citizenship test in a niqab (veil)
Christian Christian woman patterned on Prathia Hall, from whom Martin Luther King Jr. got the “I have a dream” riff. Too-smug atheist is a reference to the writer when he was younger. He remains an atheist, but has glimpsed the Himalayas of the human experience in [some of] the words of world’s faith traditions. Teachings do not need to be exactly factually accurate, to convey profound truth.
May we live in a world without out-groups.