Category: Blog

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In Feast or Fallow

Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday. She would have been 77, and you would have known it was her birthday because she would have told you–probably

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Three Sweet Stories

I flatter myself and say that someday historians will note when The Twelve stopped being All-COVID-19-All-the-Time as an important landmark in the history of the

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No Ordinary Time

Our recent unprecedented misuse of the word “unprecedented” finally got to me. I am both a word geek and history freak, and although our stay-at-home

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When the Church Prays

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. These words are attributed to

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Re-membering

Just going to brag about my congregation for a minute. It was my birthday on Sunday. I, like many whose birthday falls during this quarantine

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Being Fully Alive

I recently read a tweet which suggested that maybe some of us need to step aside and refrain from commenting on the coronavirus situation if

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Laughed So Hard I Cried

We have all noted at some point the similarities between laughing and crying.  Despite representing opposites poles on the emotional spectrum, the manifestation of each

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