The Wayne E. Oates Institute is a Connected Learning Community exploring spirituality and health as a way to advance integrative care for the whole person. The Oates Institute is a non-profit educational organization made up of caregivers from the medical, spiritual and counseling communities providing a forum for joining together as an interdisciplinary dialogue toward understanding the relationship between spirituality and the healing process.

For everyone who did not have the opportunity to see the Simple Gifts: Portraits of Forgiveness collection of watercolors by Louisville artist Jim Mahanes when it was exhibited in San Antonio, Texas, and Louisville, Kentucky, it is now on display in an online gallery at the Oates Institute.  All thirty paintings in the collection may be viewed.

Visit the Online Exhibit of Portraits of Forgiveness

Jim Mahanes found new inspiration after participating in the Oates Institute's conference on the Healing Power of Forgiveness and watching a documentary on the Power of Forgiveness produced by Martin Doblmeier through Journey Films. After seeing the radical forgiveness taught and lived out by the Amish community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Mahanes created this series of thirty paintings portraying the Amish people and their community.

The artist has contributed this series to the Wayne E. Oates Institute so that the proceeds from their sale go to the Oates Institute's Scholarship Fund.  Full size and half size giclée prints of all of these watercolors may be ordered through the online exhibit.

Visit the Online Exhibit of Portraits of Forgiveness