Month: October 2014

The big house is gone

It is no more, but for a 100 years in Zuni there was only one “big house.”  To say it loomed over the pueblo risks

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What a Waste…

The Girls (whom I have written about before) as they are commonly referred to around here, Ila and Lisa, are five and one-half years old,

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The Earth Is the Lord’s

The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it,    the world, and those who live in it. Psalm 24:1   Last week, like many others

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Lament

At different points in the D-Day movie The Longest Day, both a German officer and an American officer say, “It sure is hard to tell

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Always Remember!

My mother died the night before last. It was the end of six months or so of steady decline from an already diminished state of

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Yik Yaking

So have you heard of this app? Yik Yak? It’s like an anonymous Twitter–post anything you want without anyone else knowing who you are. I

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A Church for My Daughter

My experience and interpretation of church, particularly worship, has shifted significantly at crucial formative moments in my life. One of these shifts occurred in seminary.

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Casseroles and Cakes

Several years ago, I had breakfast with one of my former professors, whose husband had died unexpectedly a few weeks earlier.  She had never been

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