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“Easy Target” My Latest Watercolor

Original 24″ x 36″ Graphite and Watercolor on Handmade Paper “Easy Target” Throughout history, freedom has been suppressed by white male authoritarians in religion and the...



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The Quest Explained: What If You Live To Be Eighty?

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Are My Watercolors Art or Pornography?

Look at this painting. Is it of a nude person, or would you label it a naked person? Is it a woman, a female, a girl, or a lady? Which word is precisely the right one? From my perspective, as the...



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Trump And The Debilitating Shame of Evangelicalism

As I continue to be confounded by the irrational and heretical support of Trump by Christians I have come to understand a few things: The average white evangelical male is filled with shame....



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Trump’s Culture of Easy Religion

I was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister at the age of 21, over forty years ago. I served churches for more than three decades and as the Pastor of Arts on the executive staff of two of the...

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My Latest Watercolor: “Lady of Corbenic”

“Lady of Corbenic” 17″ x 28″ Handmade Watercolor Paper and Graphite For many years Lancelot drifted in a mysterious boat, in self-exile out on the open sea, and gradually his...

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My Latest Watercolor “Agape”

Original Watercolor and Graphite  18″ x 24″ “They will know we are Christians by our love.” Fr. Peter Scholtes

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“Sweet Darkness” by David Whyte

I have just encountered David Whyte (thanks to my friend Dave) on the Sam Harris podcast and then “On Being” podcast with Krista Tippett. His words touch me in my deepest places and I am...

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For Gina on Our Ninth Valentine’s Day

In a life misunderstood by most, the rarest of moments is when another gets you, like a rainbow’s end, like a moon tinted blue, like the green flash at sunset. How, you may ask, does she get me? She...

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The Search for the Holy Grail

It is 4:38 am. The following thoughts woke me a few minutes ago. They have been roiling around my mind for a lifetime. But for some reason, they rose to the top of my thinking in the early hours of...

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