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The Remembering Present

Flash-backs falsify the Past: they forget the remembering Present. ––W. H. Auden, from “I Am Not a Camera” by Steven Rodriguez Can you imagine what

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“Over There”

Johnnie, get your gun Get your gun, get your gun Take it on the run On the run, on the run Hear them calling, you

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Another Way

by Kate Kooyman I put my foot in my mouth this week. While catching up with a friend who is the middle of a significantly

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Guests or Squatters

O Lord, you know I have no friend like you. If Heaven’s not my home, then Lord what will I do? The angels beckon me

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The Ripples of War

Leon Mathonnet died on October 2, 1914, killed in battle at Monchy-le-Preux, France. He was the great-grandfather of my wife, Sophie. One year from now

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Through Our Tears

By Brian Keepers The line of people spills out the front entrance and wraps around the church. People shuffle back a forth in place, hands

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Words & Deeds

Proper 26 22nd Sunday after Pentecost Micah 3:5-12 Matthew 23:1-12 By Justin Meyers A Muslim friend of mine from Pakistan confided to me that he,

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Lament for Halloween

You’ve got to be my age or older, and you have to have been born in a small town to know what I’m talking about,

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