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Grandma’s Baptism

“I’m going to baptize my grandkids this summer!” These were the words of an Elder in my congregation, a grandmother, as she headed out for

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“Emerging adulthood,” Part I

I really appreciated psychologist Laurence Steinberg’s article last week, “The Case for Delayed Adulthood.” He acknowledges that the societal ways we talk about the path to adulthood

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Mighty Deeds

“There’s a lot of down time between the mighty deeds of God.” I heard myself saying this to my friend Sharon over pancakes yesterday. We

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Savior of Silent Stone

Dowa Yalanne is the kind of place that really deserves the word monumental. There it stands like a momentary eruption stopped in time, a bundle

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Remembered in an Instant

Recently late one Friday night I was returning from having visited a parishioner at a local hospital. Walking in the upper east side of New

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Exodus 16: Gif Style

I just wrote an entire blog. Hit the save button. My internet went out. The entire piece is now missing. This is how I feel:

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Gracious Residue

This blog post will appear on a Tuesday but I am writing it on a Monday morning and so am in a post-Sunday reflective mood

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