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At long last, the design phase is complete for five–five–new mugs! Three are occasional, in honor of our special summer episode guests, while the last two have been longstanding requests from my two comrades-in-blog, Nathan and Michial.

I) Christopher Marlowe, Elizabethan playwright and poet, spy, and all-around cool guy. Designed for Ryan Gilmour, our guest for the stand-up comedy episode.

II) Sir Francis Bacon, formulator of the scientific method and coiner of pithy epigrams. Designed for Dr. Dan Dawson, the tornado chaser.

III) Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of the British Isles and the eponym of one of the greatest periods of English literature. Designed for future Dr. Victoria Reynolds Farmer.

IV) Søren (Sören?) Kierkegaard, existentialist philosopher and melancholy Dane. Designed for Michial Farmer, our resident existentialist.

V) Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor and Dumb Ox, the master of useful distinctions. Designed for Nathan Gilmour, the Thomist among us.

Click on through to check’em out!

For our next pair of mugs, we’ve chosen another pair of familiar faces: Desiderius Erasmus, the CHP poster boy, and John Calvin, the subject of our second podcast. (Seems so long ago now!) Enjoy!

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A few episodes back, in a wicked jab at the annual NPR radio fundraisers, we jestingly offered to send a listener a Christian Humanist windbreaker. It started as a joke, but it led to some thoughtful discussion about the possibility of offering CHP loot to our loyal audience, and we’ve deemed it a good idea. On one hand, we’re delighted by the idea of generating some love (and face recognition) for the writers and thinkers we admire: theologico-literary fandom is a bit lacking in the swag department, a deficiency demanding rectification. On the other hand, at this point in our lives, we wouldn’t sneer at a little filthy pelf coming our way: we’ve got mouths to feed, some more than others, and our own not least.

Anyway, here’s our debut piece: a coffee mug featuring the iconic visage of Martin Luther, along with the Luther quotation that serves as our standard sign-off phrase. In the months to come, watch for more faces and aphorisms from thinkers and writers the Christian Humanists admire!

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