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David A. Campton

@virtualmethodist.bsky.social
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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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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
#EasterArt 7: 'The Incredulity of Saint Thomas' an oil painting on canvas by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (c.1601-2) in the collection of he Picture Gallery in the Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
#EasterArt 6: 'Risen Jesus' a painting using recycled house emulsion by Mollie Walker Freeman (c.2011-13) on repurposefulpainter.wordpress.com. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
The background is purple. A central bearded figure in white or pale blue, representing the risen Christ, stands facing out of the painting surrounded by a group of figures looking at him. He stands with his arms outstretched in a welcoming or cruciform gesture. He is clad in a pale blue robe. His head is framed by a large, vibrant halo composed of radiating strokes of white, yellow, green, and orange. The smaller figures looking upward at him are largely simple abstract blocks of color, mostly cobalt and cerulean blue, with ​a figure wearing a vibrant red hooded cloak sitting centrally in the foreground, providing a strong focal point, and another man on the right in red with a beard shown in profile.
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
#EasterArt 5: 'Leaping Gazelle, 1936' a bronze sculpture by Marshall M. Fredericks (1988) in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw Valley State University, Auburn, Michigan, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
A green bronze sculpture of a leaping long-horned antelope facing right, with its body arched, neck crooked back over its right shoulder and front legs tucked back. Its hind legs are on a curved, abstract bronze base that mimics a rock or wave and thus is mounted on a dark grey polished granite pedestal set against a clear blue sky in an outdoor urban or campus environment.
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
#EasterArt 4: 'Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant' (1800) an oil painting on a panel by Benjamin West in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
On the left, a commander (presumably Joshua) sits atop a majestic white horse wearing Roman-style armour and red cloak, raising his arm as if signaling the advance. Right of centre a massive, glowing pillar of white and gold light erupts from the clouds, illuminating the center of the piece. Directly beneath this light, a group of figures dressed in white robes carries the golden Ark on their shoulders. They are stepping into the churning waters of the Jordan River, which appears to be parting or piling up, creating a dry path for the procession to cross. In the background and to the far right, a vast crowd of people, soldiers with spears, and banners follow the Ark, suggesting the entire nation of Israel on the move. In the lower-left corner, figures are seen bowing or prostrating themselves in awe and reverence toward the miracle occurring before them. The artist uses a rich contrast between the dark, earthy tones of the foreground and the brilliant, ethereal glow of the sky. The use of red in the cloaks of the leaders provides striking focal points against the more muted landscape. The painting captures a mixture of military discipline, religious fervor, and supernatural wonder. The scale of the mountains in the background further emphasizes the monumental task of the crossing.
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#EasterArt 3: 'The Destruction of Pharaoh’s Host (1836) a watercolor with pencil and gum arabic by John Martin in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
A figure on a rock facing a tumultuous sea under a dark, heavy sky with a blood-red horizon and a setting sun. In the foreground, massive, churning waves crash against a rocky shoreline,  with tiny fragments of chariots including a wheel caught up in the waves.
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
#EasterArt 2: 'Moses dividing the waters of the Red Sea' a watercolour by John Martin (early 19th century) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
Moses in the foreground at edge of sea beside tents and a crowd of Israelites behind him, with a dust cloud and classical city in background on right and left respectively.
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
#EasterArt 1: 'Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen (Noli me Tangere)' an oil painting on canvas by Graham Vivian Sutherland (1961) in the Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
#LentArt 44: 'The Entombment of Christ' an oil painting on oak panel by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (c.1624) in the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#LentArt 43: 'Jésus devant Pilate. Deuxième entretien' gouache over graphite on gray wove paper by James Tissot (between 1886 and 1894) in the Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
#LentArt 42: 'The Washing of the Feet' an acrylic on canvas by Ghislaine Howard (2004) from the Methodist Modern Art Collection. Image Copyright © Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
#LentArt 41: 'The Last Supper' a minIature by an unknown German artist in Regensburg, Bavaria (c.1400-10) for the "World Chronicle" by Rudolf von Ems in The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#LentArt 40: 'Sower with Setting Sun' an oil painting on canvas by Vincent van Gogh (1888) in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
#LentArt 39: 'Mary Magdalen' a wood engraving on paper by Eric Gill (1926) in Tate Britain, London, England. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
#LentArt 38: 'Heads of a Donkey and Foal' a watercolour on paper by Elizabeth Eleanor Milner (late 19th/early 20th century) in The Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Hertfordshire, England. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#LentArt 36: 'Femme assise (Melancholy Woman)' an oil painting on canvas by Pablo Picasso (1902-3) in the The Detroit Museum of Art, Michigan, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
#LentArt 35: 'La Douleur (Sorrow)' an oil painting on canvas by Paul Cézanne (1868-1869) in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
#LentArt 34: 'Ashurnasirpal II besieging a city' a gypsum wall panel relief from the palace of Nimrud, Iraq (865BC-860BC) in the British Museum, London, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
#LentArt 33: 'Elisha Raising the Son of the Shunamite' an oil painting on canvas by Frederic Leighton (1881) in the Leighton House, London, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
#LentArt 32: 'My Second Sermon' an oil painting on canvas by John Everett Millais (1864) in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
#LentArt 31: 'Ezekiel 37 (Valley of Dry Bones): And the bones came together' an Etching on paper by Margaret Adams Parker (2013) in the Georgetown University Library, Washington, DC, US. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
#LentArt 30: 'The Cornell Farm' an oil painting on canvas by Edward Hicks. (1848) in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
#LentArt 29: 'The Angel with the Broken Wing' stained glass from Bristol Cathedral. (C.1220-1280) in The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
#LentArt 28: 'Ezekiel eating the scroll' an illuminated inital in a Latin Bible (12th century) from Gallica, the digital collection of the French National Library (BnF). (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
#LentArt 27: 'Jesus healing the Two Blind Men at Jericho' a mosaic (c.1180) in the in Cathedral of Monreale, Palermo, Sicily, Italy. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
#LentArt 26: 'Dawn' an oil painting on canvas by Thomas Edwin Mostyn (c 1919) in the Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay, Devon, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
#LentArt 25: 'The Conversion of Saul' a pen drawing and watercolor wash on woven paper by William Blake (c.1800-5) in The Huntington Art Gallery, San Marino, CA, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
#LentArt 24: 'The Blind Man' a painting by Gustave Van de Woestyne (1910) in the Royal Museum for Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
#LentArt 23: 'Saint John the Baptist' a oil painting on a walnut panel by Leonardo da Vinci (c.1513-16) in the Louvre, Paris, France. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
#LentArt 22: 'Torn Cloth' oil on masonite by Philip Clarkson Elliott (1952) in the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
#LentArt 21: 'Sheep and Shepherd in a Landscape' an oil painting on canvas by Constant Troyon (c.1854) in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
#LentArt 20: 'Water of Life' a bronze sculpture by Stephen Broadbent (1994) cast by Castle Fine Arts Foundry in Chester Cathedral cloister, Cheshire, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
#LentArt 19: 'Rebecca at the Well' an oil painting on canvas by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1839) in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California, United States. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
#LentArt 18: 'Moses Striking the Rock' an illustration from a "Bible historiale" by Guiard des Moulins (c. 1300-1325) in the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
#LentArt 16: 'The Fall of Manna' a painting by an unknown (German?) artist (1470) in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
#LentArt 15: 'Choir Boys' a drypoint print by Nahum Tschacbasov (1938) in Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
#LentArt 14: 'Christ and the Sinner' an oil on canvas painting by Max Beckmann (1917) in Saint Louis Art Museum, MO, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#LentArt 13: 'An Old Man and his Grandson' a tempera painting by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1490) in The Louvre, Paris, France. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
#LentArt 12: 'Ringslangen (Snakes)' a woodcut by M.C. Escher (1969) at Escher in The Palace, The Haag, Netherlands (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
#LentArt 11: 'Dove of Peace' weather vane commissioned by George Washington (late 18th century) in the American Folk Art Museum in New York, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
#LentArt 10: 'Sea View of Cape Poge Lighthouse' by Charles Hubbard (circa 1840-49) in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
#LentArt 9: 'Mountain Scene, County Down' an oil painting on canvas by Evelyn (Marchioness of Downshire) Foster (early 20th century) in the Ulster Museum, Belfast. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
4 years on & I'm just as delighted (& surprised) to have a 2nd collection of poetry in my hand... Strangely I am wearing the same jumper and fleece... I'm never going to get rich writing poems... especially as the proceeds are actually going to the BCM Dungannon & Armagh Parent Support programme.
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
#LentArt 7: 'Cain and Abel' by Keith Vaughan (1946) in the collection of Tate Gallery, Londin. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
#LentArt 6: 'When Elijah couldn’t even' by Ally Barrett (2018) in her blog www.reverendally.org. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
#LentArt 5: 'Christ in the Desert' an oil on canvas by Ivan Kramskoi (1872) in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
#LentArt 3: 'Jonah Under His Gourd' an oil painting on canvas panel by Marten van Hemmskerck (1561) part of The Royal Collection, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
#LentArt 2: 'Jonah and the Whale' an oil painting on canvas by an unknown Ethiopian artist (1940-45) in the British Museum, London. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
#LentArt 1: 'Sounding the Shofar' a colour woodcut by Jakob Steinhardt (1925) in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
#ArtintheOrdinary 11: 'The Burning Bush' a colour woodcut by Robert Overman Hodgell (1955) in the collection of the Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
#ArtintheOrdinary 10: 'The Transfiguration' an oil painting on canvas panel by Cornelis Monsma (2006) in a private collection. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)
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