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When The Church Is At Home

Acts 1:1-14 “Strike” is the most bittersweet experience of any theatrical production. After the final bow, when the echoes of applause still linger in the

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Conference of the Creatures

“All right, everybody. Can you hear me OK?” The Matriarch of all Elephants calls the Zoom meeting to order. “Blurb blurb blurby blurb blurb.” “Dolphin,

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Extraordinary Love

When Sven Johnson, his wife and two children, left their native Norway, they spent the next eight weeks crossing the choleric Atlantic in a sailboat.

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Things that are the same

In this time of COVID-19, things I once took for granted, like dropping in for tea at a friend’s house, having people over, and stopping

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Written Together

I admit it: after all these days at home on my own, I’m growing tired of words. Maybe not “words,” exactly, and certainly not books.

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An Immovable Stone

When I was growing up, Easter moved me the least of all the holy days in the church year. I am not sure why this

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Putting Fear in its Place

“T’was grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved.” – Amazing Grace (verse 2) Like so many preachers this Easter, I

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A Pandemic Interrupted

Vinnie, short for Vincent, is my six-year old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel whose sense of smell serves him well in life — aiding him in

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How Dead Was Our Lord?

In 1945, in Germany, during the jostling of US Army units across the Rhine, two GIs chanced to meet. My dad, in the 12th Army

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