The image on the front cover is a photograph by Cindy M. Brown of a room where Sacred Family artists weave together during weekly day programs. In the center of the photograph is a painting of a loom by a Sacred Family Artist (used here with permission). The loom is rendered in dark green on a bright red background and sits on a black floor. Next to the loom is a small brown table on which are piled cones of thread and a smaller table loom. The painting hangs on a cream-colored brick wall that sits over an actual table on which are piled cones of thread of various sizes and colors—red, gold, green, purple, aqua, white, multicolored. A manual bobbin winder is in the center of the table with scissors beside it.
The dominant colors of red and green in the cover and title are reminiscent of the bright reds and greens of the cover of Nancy L. Eiesland’s book The Disabled God, which is referenced by this book’s title, The Disabled Church. The title is not a description of Sacred Family Church but rather an argument for the transformation of the Christian church.