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It is Difficult For Us to Ask

My congregation has some of the most beautiful pray-ers who pray the most beautiful prayers. This past Sunday, the person who offered the prayers of

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Of the Heart

Nobody gets paid. Let’s get that out of the way. A goodly number of us do commendable and even exhausting work on this now ten-year-old

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A few scenes at Thanksgiving

I am the archivist at a small, private university, an institution that began in 1891 but that did not have an archives until 2013. In

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That Feathered Thing

In the late 1980s when my wife was getting her Masters degree in English from Michigan State University, she was able to get tickets to

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Jesus on a White Horse

“I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and

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Saturday Dance Macabre

I don’t mean this to sound like a “dance macabre,” an old late-medieval allegory of death. I swear it wasn’t. Don’t think of that Saturday

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