New Year celebrations in photos
I can’t get enough of The Big Picture blog. Here’s the roundup of celebrations of the New Year from throughout the world. Enjoy!
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For those of you with artistic interests, you may be interested in my latest project which is to pull together art from around the world for different books of the Bible. My intension here is to more directly link art with story, and teaching with the sacred use of the imagination. Naturally enough I'm beginning with Genesis. So, what happens for you as […]
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