Need an idea for Christmas?

I got a card in my mail yesterday from John August Swanson, who is probably my favorite artist. One of his originals, "Good Samaritan", hangs in my living room - the sum total of all of my ordination gift money.

John just published his latest piece, "Loaves and Fishes", based on the feeding of the five thousand. The piece is massive - unframed, it's two feet tall by three feet wide - and was printed in a limited edition of 250 originals. (Serigraphy, John's main technique, produces multiple originals. There is no single "first" one... since they are made with a high-quality printing press, all of the prints that come out of that first edition are originals and not reproductions.)

For a limited time, you can buy this wonderful piece for your favorite pastor for just $750, and stick him with the obligatory framing job of at least that much, which he will dutifully (and probably giddily) take on. ;)

Just wanted to let you know!