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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yesterday it was a piece inspired by Psalms attributed to King David. Today's piece is prompted by supposed words of Saint David, with a passing nod to Wendell Berry. #poetry virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/09/do-s...

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Do Small

Today Sally and I begin the long journey home from Pembrokeshire via her mother's in Ayr. Its been a lovely short break and a de...

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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's been a while since I've been on here and I'm currently looking out on a different vista in Pembrokeshire on holiday, but here's a short piece prompted by the view from out front window in our new manse... #poetry virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

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The Wind Farm - A Perspective

I haven't been writing much new material recently beyond sermons and funeral addresses given that my "free time" has been taken ...

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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Monologue, not minologue, but I suppose there's an appropriateness to my typo...

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David A. Campton @virtualmethodist.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Getting full value out of this last (for a while) lectionary-based art post. I'll be referring to it in my last service on circuit in Donegall Rd Methodist in a few hours, but in the meantime here's a minologue on the story that I won't be using... virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/04/beli...

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Believing Thomas

As promised today I will be preaching in Donegall Road Methodist for the last time in my current role, and will be focusing on t...

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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)

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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

Will do so in future where possible

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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

I wrote this last year but it seems even more appropriate as I stagger my way towards the end of my own incomplete journey with BCM NI this year... virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... #poem #holyweek #holyaturday

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The Incomplete Journey

I started to write this last Sunday, inspired (yet again) by Malcolm Guite's own poem and reflection for Palm Sunday in "The Wor...

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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

Another blast from the past - my reworking of a much older piece giving Judas Iscariot's perspective on the earlier anointing in Bethany. virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/03/conf...

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The Confession of Judas

On preparing a Holy Week reflection on the anointing of Jesus as recorded in John 12 I remembered this version of part of the medieval myste...

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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

This was the second of the three monoligues I wrote for EBM/Skainos all those years ago. I've only used it once since then but have reblogged it many times since including this piece last year. virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

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The Return of Mary of Bethany - a reblog

In our Holy Week Services in Donegall Road, Belfast South and Grosvenor Road this week we will be focusing our thoughts using ad...

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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

Another morning with my mind starting at 100mph... Do we really hear what we are singing? And how do we want God to answer? virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/03/fire... #poem

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Fire Fall Down

There are times when I am jolted out of times of worship by a phrase or image that strikes me in an unexpected way, and whilst I...

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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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