Posted on 09/07/2020 5:39:46 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty
This weekend, downtown DC’s St. John’s Church will have local artists paint racial justice-themed murals on the plywood panels that were installed during the George Floyd protests. St. John’s is located on Black Lives Matter Plaza, and served as the backdrop for Donald Trump’s infamous bible photo op this June.
Artists will be painting the murals at the church this Saturday from 10 AM to 5 PM. The public is invited to join a dedication prayer service beforehand, and to stop by throughout the day to watch the painters work. Attendees can also add art of their own by contributing messages of “hope, love, and inspiration” to prayer wall canvasses on the H Street side of the church.
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I’ve looked through the photos (they’re on St. Johns’ Facebook page).
I’ve seen:
‘Grace Love Faith’
Stained glass depiction of a white dove
One that says ‘we are all different shades of the same color’
One with 4 hands intertwined; the hands appear to depict white, black, brown and Asian
There’s others, but those were the ones that jumped out at me.
Are you talking about on the left hand side of the photo I posted?
If so, I believe that’s a profile of the Rev. William Hawley, rector of St. Johns from 1817 to 1845. He baptized and married free and enslaved African Americans as rector. He also served as Chaplain of the Senate.
The church posted that when the boards come down (I assume during restoration), the boards will be donated to the Smithsonian.
The great bending over continues.
Mighty white of them...
Black OLives Matter
I can’t tell you how angry I am over all of this.
This church is disgusting. Burn it up? Oh, go ahead and do some more damage.
This paper is disgusting. Happily reporting this, and using the FALSE MONIKER “BLM Plaza”, capitalized!
What the hell makes these blacks and communist enablers think they ARE OPPRESSED? Who is it that clearly has power?
Be consistent. Yellow.
Of course, there is no “brown” race, so....
Oh great. Then the Smithsonian can engage in more America-bashing.
James Smithson has long been rolling in his grave. He gave the bequest because he thought America was so advanced and free, ahead of its time and capable of great progress.
That Englishman who never visited knew a lot more about the US back then, than these spoiled-rotten vile vitriolic brats do now.
Leni
Yeah, I couldn’t figure out how to frame it. Caucasian, African, Native American, Asian?
I guess the song I learned in church about ‘red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight’ is probably racist now.
Don’t see Che in that. Too curly forward.
The nonsense with racial names drives me nuts, linguistically and grammatically. There should be total consistency...and preferably simple and short, hence colors are best.
I knew I left the episcopal church for a reason.
Hoping that these artistic renderings on plywood will magically keep future protesters from once again trying to burn down the Church, thus destroying their own “artwork”. A talisman of sorts.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you track the degeneration and decline of America these last fifty years, they are winning. There are occasional speed bumps for them, but they're temporary.
Every iteration of liberal insanity in America is worse than the one before.
It will take an Act Of God to stop our decline, and as long as we applaud faggots and protect the baby murdering industry, I just don't see that happening.
May as well have let the church burn.
I attended a Sunday service at this church in the 1980’s. We went to absorb the history of the ‘Church of the Presidents’. The church was filled, but we were seated in the front row - don’t know why. In front of us a slight sized man played a trumpet solo. THE best trumpet player that I have ever listened to. He was a natural ‘strawberry blond’, fair skinned, maybe in his late 30’s, and intense. To this day, I continue to search for him in pictures, bands, etc.
Wonder what the response would be if someone did a painting of the Crucifixion that depicted people of all colors standing at the foot of the Cross with the text of John 3:16 as part of the artwork.
Leni
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