the refuge

Hi friends, welcome to the new website of the Refuge. I hope you enjoy it.

I just wanted to offer a few words pertaining to the image above. The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb was painted by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1521. Its actual dimensions are 30.5 x 200 cm, and the model used was an actual corpse pulled out of the Rhine River in Germany. It is meant to accurately display every physical aspect of death.  Dostoevsky was said to have encountered it in August of 1867, proclaiming, This picture could rob many a man of his faith.  He then proceeded to write The Idiot. 

The image was chosen for this site in order to serve as a reminder of the reality of the work of God’s kingdom, and to demonstrate how far we, as followers of Christ, must be willing to go.