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All about D-day

I didn’t know him–couldn’t have. He was killed four years before I was born. For years I wouldn’t have known his story any more fully

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We are the same person

“We are the same person,” is the thing I find myself saying when I feel a particular affinity to someone. The other day my friend

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A Great Cloud of Witnesses

Last week I was gifted the library of a local, retired pastor. Rather than donate the books to a bookstore, he wanted them to go

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The Edge of a Cliff

Sometimes I tell people that if I ever became a pastor (or in the nomenclature of the denomination I grew up in: preacher), I’d get

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Is No Thing Sacred?

The adult discussion group at church was talking about “Faith and Creation Care.” As expected, the creation stories of Genesis and some of the robust

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Pursuing Paul

Temple of Apollo, Corinth, with temple of Aphrodite on the acropolis behind. Thanks to Laura de Jong for filling in for me last time. I

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