Category: Blog

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We’ve Forgotten How to Read

If you have ever muttered to yourself, “Kids these days! They have the attention spans of gnats!”, I am here to report that the kids

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The Big Bluestem

Right now, our big bluestem are heavy with seeds, the patch closest to my window sky high, seven feet, I’m sure. We planted them years

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The Terrace

My day’s highlight was lunch with a former grad student. We caught up on her classmates and mutual friends, departmental politics, her life now. Their

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A Golden Jubilee

School started again this week for me. I had been thinking about the fact that I’ve hit a career milestone–I’m beginning my 25th year as a

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New Old Promises

Walter Brueggemann has said, “The telling of story is the way the power of God becomes available in each new present circumstance.” That seems to

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Comfort in Consistency

You could feel the anxiety and worry oozing out of the headlines. As the summer has progressed, the headlines out of Germany have trumpeted the

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Watergate Remembered

We can’t let summer 2022 pass without marking the 50th anniversary of Watergate. Or, of “Watergate.” Watergate itself was a Keystone Cops burglary of the

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