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What happens when the image of Jesus changes?
For generations, Latter-day Saints have encountered Christ through the familiar Christus: resurrected, triumphant, and rendered in white marble. But new sculptures at Temple Square offer a strikingly different vision—a Christ in Gethsemane and a Christ struggling beneath the weight of the cross.
In this episode of *Dialogue Unbound*, Margaret Olsen Hemming and Caroline Kline are joined by art historian Jenny Champoux and theologian Mike Huston to explore what these images might mean for Latter-day Saint theology. Together, they discuss the value—and potential dangers—of depicting a suffering Christ, competing understandings of the atonement, the racial implications of the white Christus, and the power of religious art to shape how we understand Jesus.
Can a more embodied, vulnerable Christ open new theological possibilities? And as the Church expands its visual vocabulary, can new images change not only how Latter-day Saints see Jesus, but how they understand God, suffering, and one another?