Pentecost Sunday Sermon 2025

AI Video Series: The Tree of Life and Sacred River of Revelation 22

I am creating an imaginative series of AI Videos on the Tree of Life and the Sacred River from Revelation 22—as famous artists might have painted it. Artists to be included range from Claude Monet to Andy Warhol to Vincent Van Gogh. This Sunday, the Revised Common Lectionary includes this reading. Each video in the series combines Scripture, theological imagination, and multiple AI tools to bring these visions to life. 

 1) Claude Monet

2) Andy Warhol

3) Vincent van Gogh

4) Georgia O'Keeffe

5) Rembrandt van Rijn

The Rebel Cherub of Ezekiel 28, AI Animation Video by Stephen L. Cook

Isaiah 6, The Fiery Seraphim and Archaeology, AI Video by Stephen L. Cook

Ezekiel 1, The Throne-Chariot Vision, AI Animation by Stephen L. Cook

 Ezekiel 1, The Throne-Chariot Vision, AI Animation by Stephen L. Cook

Finding Rembrandt's Ram Caught in the Thicket

 I've inspected Rembrandt's etching in person and up close at the National Gallery's East Wing on the Mall in Washington, DC. Here is my latest suggestion about the placement of the ram: 

Finding Rubens' Tenth Lion....

 

My students in my Visual Interpretation of Scripture class have been helping me find the "hidden" tenth lion in Rubens' masterwork, "Daniel in the Lions' Den" (ca. 1615). We think that we have found it: