Religion & Beer

Beer In Art #33: Rik Olson’s Saint Of Beer

June 28, 2009

Today’s work of art is one that I own and is hanging on the wall in my kitchen. It’s by a local artist, Rik Olson, who’s an illustrator as well as a fine artist. Olson has a studio in Sebastopol and I’ve been to it a few times during the annual Sonoma County Art Trails, [...]

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Baptist Blasts Beer

October 30, 2008

What is it about Baptists in particular that makes them so damned anti-everything, and beer in particular? Much of the rest of the Christian world seems perfectly able to turn the cheek and be tolerant of their fellow man, even if they don’t see the world quite the same way. I know many, many Christians [...]

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Beer & Christianity

December 25, 2006

It’s Christmas Eve and I’m sitting at my in-laws drinking a Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale. The kids are asleep, the presents are wrapped and we’ve finished the traditional meal of Chinese take-out (don’t ask). The rest of my wife’s family (she has four siblings) is watching television and finishing their own wrapping, kibitzing in the [...]

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