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We who worship the "image of the unseen God" have rightly gloried in the Incarnation while remaining healthily skeptical of pictures. Even today, while evangelicals aren't destroying images as they did during the Reformation, they are still wary of having any images in their churches. They remember the Decalogue's prohibitions against graven images, and know firsthand that images, for all their wonder, can sometimes seduce us at the expense of the Word.

Ted Olsen is online managing editor of Christianity Today.

For more reflection on the brutality at Abu Ghraib prison, see our full coverage area.

This column appeared in the magazine's July print issue as the third entry of "Weblog in Print," CT's effort to duplicate on paper our popular online Weblog feature. Earlier entries include:

Misfires in the Tolerance Wars | Separating church and state now means separating belief and action (Feb. 24, 2004)

A Theoblogical Revolution | Billy Graham's vision goes from print to online, then back again. (Jan. 16, 2004; Weblog update: "New Kids on the Blog," Feb. 13, 2004)

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June (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48