Tag Archive | "christianity"

Absolution Figurine + Colleen Werthmann story

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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[The auction for this object, with story by Colleen Werthmann, has ended. Original price: $3.00. Final price: $11.50. Significant Objects will donate proceeds from this auction to Girls Write Now.] During the Sacraments, cheat out. That way the whole church can see you, and your parents can get a nice picture, not just the back of [...]

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Plastic Communion Cross

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Mark Binelli, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $10.49.  Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Shortly after I made my First Communion, my cousin Rodney showed up at my mom’s. He’d also just made his First Communion, though at a [...]

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Cracker Barrel Ornament

Friday, October 30, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Maud Newton, has ended. Original price: 59 cents. Final price: $24.50.] This astonishing “Cracker Barrel” artifact appears to be a souvenir of modern vintage, representing a down-home North American restaurant-and-country-store chain that upholds Christian values by refusing to hire gay people. In fact, the object dates to [...]

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Dilbert Stress Toy

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Betsey Swardlick, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $26. This story is the third in a three-part series produced in collaboration with The Center for Cartoon Studies. ]

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Tin Ark

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rebecca Wolff, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $19.50.] There was this family, and their eight-year-old son developed a tumor on, or in, his jaw. They had it removed, and treated with radiation and chemotherapy, but a short while later it came back. They had [...]

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