By Jessie Nilo
Beauty Ends Violence in the Upside-Down Kingdom
A Call for Artists to Show the World Jesus
In a world where political parties are never the answer, it is our honor to invite you into the perspective of God. The Kingdom of Heaven doesn’t “fit into” our categories or ideologies—it overturns them.
Call for Art: “Upside-Down Kingdom” Exhibit
We’re curating an online exhibit to help the world see Jesus and His Kingdom through your creative work. Whether it’s art you made years ago, something you’re crafting now, or an idea just beginning to form—we’d be honored to feature your work.
Deadline to enter: Thursday, October 16 at midnight
Enter up to 3 pieces (no entry fee!) → GodLovesArt.com
The Kingdom of God is His dynamic rule and reign, breaking into the world through Jesus—restoring all things to their true order. God brings justice, peace, mercy, and wholeness to people and creation. His Kingdom is already here wherever His will is done, and one day it will be fully realized when Christ returns.
Let’s fill this exhibit with living parables and modern stories—paintings, sculptures, photographs, poems, and creative works that flip the world’s logic with grace.
The Upside-Down Kingdom is where:
Beauty ends violence.
The least become leaders.
Power is defined through love, not control.
The weak are called strong.
Jesus frees the captives.
Ruins are rebuilt for flourishing.
Be inspired by Ruth Feeney’s reverse graffiti trees on soot-blackened walls…
The compassion of Kelly Latimore’s Christ in the Rubble painting…
And the shock of Timothy Schmalz’s Love Your Enemies sculpture.
Watch our food-for-thought video here.
We want to give your art a platform to proclaim the scandalous news of radical exchange—where:
Kindness brings repentance.
Give in secret.
Turn the other cheek.
A seed dies, then bears fruit.
The widow’s mite is more than gold.
Love your enemies.
Carry the extra mile.
Feed your betrayer.
Serve with a towel, not a title.
Welcome the little children.
Rest when the world says hustle.
Create when others criticize.
Together, let’s make visible the invisible Kingdom.
Let’s turn the world upside down—and right-side up again—with art that reveals Jesus.
Thank you for being part of this movement. Invite artists who love God’s Kingdom to join you.
“The Kingdom of God is where our best dreams come from and our truest prayers… The Kingdom of God is where we belong. It is home, and whether we realize it or not, I think we are all of us homesick for it.”
— Frederick Buechner