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Marijke Strong

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Deep Goodness

In a crumbling monastery, overlooking grazing sheep and stony shores, we said words that cracked something open in my heart and changed my life forever.

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Abbott is Death Process

The alien was dying. In the 2016 movie Arrival, Louise Banks (played by Amy Adams) is invited by the government to communicate with extraterrestrials whose

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Love in a Divided House

I hate filing. I really do. Most likely this is because I feel I have no mastery over it. I really do not know whether

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The Advent of Integrity

Call me crazy, but when I think of Advent I sometimes think about integrity. Sure, I also think about warm candles lit against the cold,

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Two Solitudes

It was the day of the presidential election, November 8, 2016. I had been asked to preach in chapel at the Bast Preaching Festival at

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Midnight Benedicting

By Marikjke Strong Jeremiah 31:7-14 Happy new day! Happy new beginning! For a split second there is a funny, sweet discomfort between us. Wouldn’t it

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Naming

by Marijke Strong Isaiah 61:10-62:3 And you shall be called by a new name which the mouth of the Lord shall give. Do you remember

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