Scotland-based Artist Peter Howson is one of the best modern interpreters of the Passion of Christ, creating images of redemptive suffering, which can speak to a culture obsessed with violence and murder. I recently acquired three mixed-media drawings by Howson for the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection, depicting the suffering of Christ, and have just posted images on his profile page in the Sacred Artists section. In The Last Temptation, Howson presents a harrowing study of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, stripped and sweating, as he prays to God to let his cup of torment pass. In the quickly sketched ink drawing, Mocked, the artist summons up the figure of Christ, bent under the blows of his tormentors. Inferno 5 presents the Crucifixion of Christ on a panoramic scale, worthy of Rembrandt, where the events of Good Friday unfold in a hellish urban wasteland. This is art to contemplate as we enter Holy Week. (John Kohan)