"House in Belgium" Joseph Raphael (American, 1869-1950) Private Collection

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

"Lavender Fields of Provence" Graham Elliott (British, b. 1943) Private Collection

"The Church at Moret in the Morning Sun," 1893 Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (France)

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Diane Keaton, famed for roles in ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘Godfather,’ dies at 79

"October Afternoon," 1906 Julian Onderdonk (American, 1882–1922) Dallas Museum of Art

"Let your eye live and grow in God, and your soul will never shrivel. You can count on it to keep you alive…awake…tender." ~Hildegard of Bingen

Childe Hassam, American (1859-1935), Couch on The Porch, Cos Cob, 1914

"A Century of Progress," Chicago World's Fair, 1933 Artist Weimer Pursell (1906-1974)

"October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!" ~Rainbow Rowell Painting: "The Studio Boat," 1875-1876 Claude Monet (1840-1926)

"The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them." ~John Stott

Kawase Hasui, Japanese (1883-1957), Morning at Ao Marsh, Ura Heights (Urabandai Aonumano asa), 1949, color woodblock print, paper: 39.5 x 26.3 cm, block: 36.4 × 24.4 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

"And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it." Luke 19:41 "The Lord Wept," between 1886 and 1894 James Tissot (French, 1836-1902) Brooklyn Museum

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

"Sacred Heart of Paris" Edouard Léon Cortès (French, 1882-1969) Private Collection

Camilla Göbl-Wahl, Austrian (1871-1965), Blossoming Cherry Twigs, oil on thick cardboard, 10 x 70 cm, private collection

"Too often the price exacted by society for security and respectability is that the Christian movement in its formal expression must be on the side of the strong against the weak." ~Howard Thurman, "Jesus and the Disinherited"

"Lunar Reflections" H.M. Saffer II (American, b. 1942) Private Collection

“The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.” ~ John Green

“Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.” ~Athanasius of Alexandria (293AD – 373AD)

"Old Sundborn Church," from 'A Home' series, c.1895 Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853-1919) Swedish National Museum

"The Wedding Register," 1920 Edmund Blair Leighton (English, 1852-1922) Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

“View of Venice,” 1873 Arnold Scheffer ( French, 1839-1873) Museum of Romantic Life, Paris

We do not have a president, nor a Department of Justice. We have a dictator (a soft dictator, but consolidating power by the day) and his flunkies. As an attorney I am utterly ashamed. And frankly angry as hell at anyone who took the same oath I did and goes along with this.

“Tirian had never dreamed that one of the results of an Ape’s setting up a false Aslan would be to stop people from believing in the real one.” ~C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle

"By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger." ~C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

I’ve just come across this painting on my phone and decided to show you. So good. 🇺🇦 Yevhen Hordiets, A Child and the Sea, 1982

"Christ is not American. The church is global. Our neighbors are all of humanity. The national anthem is not a gospel song." ~Bernice King

I’m very thankful to grow old with wise daughters. My daughter, Ruth succinctly summarizes the complexity and exhaustion of our current American political moment youtu.be/rNlTmYV-XZg

Welcome, autumn! Painting: "Autumn Leaves," 1856 John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896) Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

Just for the record, Jesus is not a celebrity.

"The Church at Essoyes," c. 1900 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919) Private Collection

Albert Lorieux, French (1876-1915), Solitude, c. 1898, oil on canvas, 100 x 80.5 cm, private collection

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

“The Steps," 1878 Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) Private Collection

"Washerwomen at Pont-Aven," 1886 Paul Cezanne (French, 1839-1906) Musée d'Orsay, Paris

"After the Storm," 2020 Kadir Nelson (Los Angeles-based artist, b. 1974) Private collection of the artist, seen at periodic exhibits

Through many dangers, toils and snares We have already come 'Twas grace that brought us safe thus far And grace will lead us home.

"Beach Flowers and Boats, Dungeness" Paul Evans, contemporary British artist (East Anglia region)

Ekua Holmes : Free to Be, n.d. From series, 'There’s No Place Like Home' Mixed media collage www.ekuaholmes.com/collages-ass...

The lack of compassion paired with the lust for retribution from all quarters is alarming.

And now for something completely different… Artist: Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920) Title: "Sommarnöje" (1886) Medium: watercolor on paper (76 x 54 cm) Private collection.

Birger Sandzén, Swedish-American (1871-1954), The Great Peak (Longs Peak) / Long's Peak, Colorado, 1938, oil on canvas, 101.92 x 122.24 cm, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

And now for something completely different.. Harald Slott-Møller (Danish painter and ceramist) 1864 - 1937 Woman on a Sunlit Farm, 1916 oil on canvas 54 x 72 cm. private collection

"Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial." ~Howard Thurman, "Jesus and the Disinherited"