I think it is really interesting that throughout the Christian tradition, you have people continually making images, but the fear of iconoclasm that responds to this image making also runs throughout tradition. It’s never fully stamped out. And why is that? I think that’s just because of the way that anything in the world, including an image, can also become an idol.

In this episode of Another Life, Joy Clarkson speaks with Natalie Carnes, a professor of theology at Duke University, about the role of images in worship.