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Away Home

On Tuesday night the Toronto Blue Jays played their first “Home” game in their new home-away-from-home, Sahlen Field, in Buffalo, New York. Normally the home

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The Extraordinary Ordinary

Echoing the apostle Paul and others, Maximus the Confessor wrote that “all the ages of time and the beings within those ages have received their

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God’s Disruptions

Seventeen years ago Neal Plantinga created a summer seminar titled “Imaginative Reading for Creative Preaching.”  I was privileged to be one of about twenty pastors

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What’s in a Name?

Our warriors kicked full speed into their mounts and went racing after [the buffalo], whooping wildly to strike terror in the herd and make them

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Shrub Whispering

When it comes to communing with other creatures, I’m not a very promising candidate. I talk to plants all the time, encouraging my flowers to

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Church Visitors

We were blessed to get into the place. The blasted Covid stuff is closing everything these days, and with good reason. But our permission to

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