M. E. Thomas

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Josh Ewers |M. E. Thomas |Linda Wilson Fuoco |Marylynne Pitz

When the scaffolding came down inside the unassuming hilltop church in Millvale, it revealed a raging storm of biblical proportions. A wide-eyed Moses holds the Ten Commandments aloft in righteous fury, ready to shatter the tablets when his followers abandon God for a golden calf. Lightning sizzles and a tornado surges in the background. The late artist Maxo Vanka created the mural in 1941, based on a scene from the Book of Exodus.