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In Gun We Trust

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Matt Stone

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2020-06-04

I often wonder what god is actually being worshipped in conservative America. But I am far from alone in that. Here are a score of satirical depictions of American gun worship.
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Prayer to the Sacred Three

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Matt Stone

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2020-06-04

This prayer was sourced from a Forest Church liturgy at Brigid’s Mantle by Gelli Ma Prayer to the Sacred Three Sacred Three, whose love spirals the Universe I ask you to guide my footsteps To open my eyes, to reveal your presence in the world that is your gift to…
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Christian Art: visions of Pentecost

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Matt Stone

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2020-05-31

With today being Pentecost Sunday I thought I’d share some of the Christian art I’ve collected featuring the coming of the Holy Spirit of Pentecost.
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When did Christians start meeting on a Sunday?

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Matt Stone

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2020-04-02

When did Christians start meeting on a Sunday? Many assume that it’s a tradition that arose centuries after the apostles. And yet evidence survives within the Bible itself that churches began meeting on the first day of the week soon after the resurrection of Jesus on the first day of…
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A blessing for a fine harvest

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Matt Stone

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2020-03-04

A blessing from the book of Genesis: May God give you heaven’s dew and earth’s richness— an abundance of grain and new wine.
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In the Fading Summer Sun

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Matt Stone

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2020-02-29

In the Fading Summer Sun In the fading of the summer sun, the shortening of days, cooling breeze, swallows’ flight and moonlight rays we see the Creator’s hand In the browning of leaves once green, morning mists, autumn chill, fruit that falls frost’s first kiss we see the Creator’s hand…
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The Golden Calf

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2020-02-21

What if the idol “cast in the shape of a calf” was not bovine in appearance at all? With all that aimless wandering in the desert, maybe they were fitness junkies?
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Moses condemned as Never Trumper

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2020-02-20

I have no doubt if Moses were alive today he’d be condemned by many Evangelicals as a Never Trumper. How dare he make it so difficult for Christians to support corrupt politicians!
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Christian Art: visions of Ezekiel

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Matt Stone

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2020-02-12

Ezekiel was a prophet who lived in Babylonia at the time of the destruction of the First Temple. Among his more famous prophecies, which were compiled in the Book of Ezekiel, are his visions of the Divine Chariot, the Valley of the Dry Bones, and the Third Temple. Following is…
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The art of Hildegard of Bingen

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Matt Stone

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2020-02-07

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, herbalist and overall polymath, who ruled her own monastery of Rupertsberg, high on a hill in rural Germany. Hildegard’s most significant works were her three volumes of visionary theology: Scivias (“Know the Ways”), Liber Vitae…
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