Monthly Archives: February 2012
Why Baptists Don’t Do Lent
Pieter Bruegel, Detail of The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559), oil on wood, 46 in x 65 in, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna There are a lot of things Baptist aren’t supposed to do. Baptists don’t drink, dance, gamble, or chew. … Continue reading
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Light Up Jesus
Transfiguration (1516-1520), Raphael, oil on wood, 159 in. x 109 in., Vatican Museums, Vatican City Perusing online auctions is a guilty pleasure of mine. I’m usually looking at art. Unfortunately most of what I like I can’t afford and what … Continue reading
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A Leper’s Pride
Jesus Healing the Leper (1864) by Jean-Marie Melchior Doze There was no hiding the man’s condition. One look and you knew he was striken with the dreaded disease. Naaman had leprosy—the AIDS of his day. Leprosy was (and is) a chronic … Continue reading
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Deliver Us from Evil
Detail of Death and the Miser (c. 1494), Hieronymous Bosch, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC I missed church last Sunday and I’m kind of glad I did. The sermon was about one of the many times Jesus cast out … Continue reading
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