Category: Blog

I’ll Not Be a Stranger

James Bratt is away today. We welcome guest-blogger Daniel Meeter. Thank you. I always go to worship at my local synagogue on Yom Kippur. And

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Ordinary Dust

Tuesday morning I entered the classroom with a strange, nagging, feeling.  I couldn’t shake it… the feeling that things weren’t going to go well. I asked

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Citizens of the Kingdom

Jennifer Holberg is away today. We welcome Chad Pierce. The world feels like it is in a rough spot right now. This past week has

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The Ever-Bigger Welcome

Twelve things I saw preaching through the Acts of the Apostles, chapters ten to fifteen This past summer, Sophie (my wife and co-pastor) and I

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Predictable shadows

A week ago Sunday night I sat on the front porch and watched the moon as it rose, full and bright. Clouds came and went

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Japanese Autumn

Lines Composed in an Autumn Reverie, on Visiting the Japanese Garden one Friday Afternoon, October 2015.               Chrysanthemums Huddled

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Holy Fool

There has never been a great movie about John Brown. Seriously, hard as it is to believe, no one has ever done a blockbuster about

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