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David A. Campton

@virtualmethodist.bsky.social

Husband, father, Methodist minister, writer, with an uninformed interest in all kinds of stuff, but fed up with fights on social media.

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#ArtintheOrdinary 120: 'The Apostle Paul explains the tenets of faith in the presence of King Agrippa, his sister Berenice, & the proconsul Festus' by Vasily Surikov (1875) in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

13.10.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 119: 'The cleansing of Naaman' a gilt bronze and champlevΓ© enamel plaque from an altar retable made in the Meuse Valley (c.1150–60) in the British Museum, London. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

12.10.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 118: 'Healing of a Leper' by Niels Larsen Stevns (1913) in the Skovgaard Museum, Viborg, Denmark. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

11.10.2025 07:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 116: 'The Flight of the Prisoners' by James Tissot (c.1896-1902) in the Jewish Museum, New York, NY. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

09.10.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 115: 'Christ Curses the Fig Tree' by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1918) in the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

08.10.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 114: 'The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem' by Francesco Hayez (1867) in the Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice, Italy. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

07.10.2025 07:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 113: 'Weeping Women' a Lucanian tomb fresco (c.340 BCE) in the Paestum Archaeological Museum, Magna Graecia, Italy. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

06.10.2025 07:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 112: 'Melancholy. Weeping Woman on the Beach' by Edvard Munch (1906) in The Munch Museum, BjΓΈrvika, Oslo, Norway. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

05.10.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Storm Amy Tanka It's been a while. So if anyone out there reads this it will be astounding.Β  There have been various reasons for my silence that...

Just when you thought it was safe... After a long pause a short poem (and a ridiculousy wordy introduction...) #poetry

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04.10.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 111: 'The Morning after the Storm' by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1840-5) in The National Museum Cardiff, Wales. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

04.10.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 107: 'Lazarus at the Rich Man's Gate' by Heinrich Aldegrever (1554) in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

30.09.2025 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 104: 'A refugee child' by Judy Arvidson (c.2016) as part of "Painting Syria’s Children: The Refugee Portrait Project" for World Vision. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

27.09.2025 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 100: 'A flood of refugees from Vilna' by Ivan Vladimirov (1916) sold at auction by Hermitage Fine Art, Monaco. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

24.09.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 99: 'Canaanite goddess wearing a headdress surmounted by a bird' a late Bronze Age bronze figure (c.1500 - 1100 BCE) in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

23.09.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just noticed and corrected a couple of copy errors that had crept into the citation I put at the end of these daily posts. One appeared a few days ago, but the other corruption goes way back to the day I posted that portrait of President Trump. Just saying...

21.09.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 97: 'The Parable of the Unjust Steward' by Hans Leonhard SchΓ€ufelein (1514) in the British Museum, London. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

21.09.2025 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 96: 'Village in Ruins' by Jakob Steinhardt (1954) in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. (Posts on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

20.09.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 93: 'The Renowned Orders of the Night' by Anselm Kiefer (1997) in the Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain. (Posts on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

17.09.2025 06:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 92: 'Life of Nichiren: Prayer for Rain Answered' by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (c.1835) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. (Posts based on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

16.09.2025 07:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 92: 'David Street, Jerusalem' by Carl Wuttke (c. 1890) in a private collection. (Posts based on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

15.09.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 90: 'The Parable of the Lost Drachma' by Domenico Fetti (c. 1618) in the GemΓ€ldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany. (Posts based on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

14.09.2025 08:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 89: 'The Burning of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar’s Army' by an artist/s in 5he circle of Juan de la Corte (between 1630 and 1660) in the collection of FundaciΓ³n Banco Santander. (Posts based on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

13.09.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 88: 'Approaching Thunder Storm' by Martin Johnson Heade (1859) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. (Posts based on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

12.09.2025 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please note: Until Bible Gateway sorts out their "technical difficulties" in the UK, or Vanderbilt migrates to another Bible link, my posts on this thread may be somewhat sporadic. Apologies.

10.09.2025 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 86: 'The Camel and the Eye of the Needle' by AndrΓ‘s BΓΆrΓΆcz (1989) in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary. (Posts based on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

10.09.2025 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 84: 'Starvation' by George Biddle (1933) in Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA. (Posts based on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

08.09.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 83: part of 'Potter Herman KΓ€hler in his Workshop' by Laurits Andersen Ring (1890) in Randers Kunstmuseum, Denmark. (Posts based on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

07.09.2025 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 82: part of 'Hungry Child' by Morton Levi Bridge (c.1944) in Binghamton University Art Museum, NY. (Posts based on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

06.09.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 80: part of 'The Miraculous Journey' by Damien Hirst (2013) in Doha, Qatar. (Posts based on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

04.09.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ArtintheOrdinary 79: 'The Feast of the Bean King' by Jacob Jordaens (1640) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. (Posts based on the Daily vised Common Lectionary for Year C from Vanderbilt University)

03.09.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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