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Jennifer L. Holberg

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The Price of Tomatoes

I may have moved to a condo in recent years, but I still have a wonderful little hanging pot of tomatoes on my back deck.

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The Slightest Hint of Green

I had the delight this past semester to teach a “gen ed” global literature class that I nicknamed “Epic Journeys.” That means we read lots

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The worthiness of the work

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, so I’ve been thinking not only of the many extraordinary teachers I’ve had in my own life but about the very

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Dusty Endings

Though Easter was a huge deal in my family, we never did Ash Wednesday when I was growing up. No service, no imposition of ashes.

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Two Poems for Eastertide

How do we live in a world, as my minister reminds us every week, “where a Resurrection has happened.” In this now season of Easter,

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“Complicated Narratives”

In talking with many of my church-raised students, I’ve often heard them complain about how they heard the same handful of Bible stories again and

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