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Art, history, the Bible… Musings of a Christian woman.

Entries from July 2005

Hodge-podge of followers

July 15th, 2005 · 4 Comments

On Wednesdays, Pastor Dafoe has been going through the Apostles of Christ and discussing them. Each week, a different disciple is in focus. Some weeks, I’m sure the task of finding Scriptures about a disciple’s life is very easy, such as with Peter. However, this past Wednesday, he focused on Simon Zelotes, ie Simon the [...]

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Tags: Bible

Yankee/Dixie Quiz!

July 6th, 2005 · 6 Comments

How do you do?
My score:58% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category
Being here, we are considered Yankees by the South, but considered Hicks by people up North, lol. I the middle I suppose that’s just how it goes. Any other Barely Dixie’s out there?

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Tags: General

You know you’re from Indiana when…

July 6th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Okay, I’ve been in Indiana all my life, and only left for rather short-term vacations, until I went to school in South Carolina this past school year. And, until then, I didn’t realize how different other places were. For instance, did you know that only in Indiana do we use the expression “pitch in”? The [...]

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

July 6th, 2005 · Comments Off

Well, I have finally seen the movie The Girl with a Pearl Earring with Scarlett Johansson. I find myself watching nearly everything with a bit of an art historic perspective. However, I do now know enough to catch many of the movie blunders (ie they showed the servants polishing forks with four prongs, which weren’t [...]

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Tags: Art · General

’tis kinda sad.

July 1st, 2005 · 1 Comment

Well, it has been requested by a couple people that I post something new on this here site…if nothing else to move the post about breasts down the page, lol.
And I was told that I could blog about anything. So here goes.
The other day I was in the car with my mom and my two [...]

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