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Making Hope Physical

A few weeks ago I wrote about how my hope had gotten lost in the physical and how I needed a new narrative. This week

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Pestilence and Persuasion

When we face a seemingly intractable challenge, where do we turn?    To the Bible first of all, as faithful Christians, where we find not just

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Blessed Be the Fruit

My mom started keeping a daily diary on her 13th birthday in 1963. Aside from a gap in the mid-70s, she kept her diary going

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Field of Dreams

“Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside

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Hope Pursues Beauty

About a year ago, I read Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses. In the fourth century text, Gregory provides both a historical account and an

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What I saw on my summer vacation

Her apparel suggested a sect I didn’t recognize. Her husband wore a great bushy beard. He appeared to be a man not afraid of work—farming

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