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A Christmas story

E-mail|Link|Comments () Posted by Michael Paulson December 25, 2009 11:03 AM

For those of you who missed the Globe in the snowstorm last Sunday, check out this story I wrote about live painting at the altar of Grace Chapel in Lexington, Mass. The story describes how Lori Dupre, an artist who lives in Billerica, reinforces sermons by painting during preaching.

And the Globe's gifted multimedia producer, Scott LaPierre, made this lovely video of Lori at work:

P.S. I know many of you have been wondering where I've been, and what's happened to this blog. Since late September, I've devoted much of my time to helping out on the Globe's metro desk as an interim associate political editor. I'm now talking with the paper about whether I will continue editing in a more-or-less permanent capacity (given the uncertainty of this business, I hesitate to say how long anything will last), in which case the Globe will name another religion writer, or whether I will return to the religion beat full-time. I expect to know one way or another sometime early in the new year. Until then, best wishes for a very Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a new year that, for all of us, will be better than the last.

(Photo above, by Essdras Suarez of the Globe staff, shows a painting Lori Dupre created in 25 minutes during a sermon at Grace Chapel on Sunday, Dec. 13.)

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Harvey Cox, the Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard University, marks his retirement by asserting a little-used right of his professorship -- to graze a cow in Harvard Yard. Photo, by Barry Chin of the Globe staff, taken on Sept. 10, 2009 in Cambridge, Mass.