Category: Blog

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Hatred and Hope

Years ago as I began my ministry, I read a book that exercised a huge influence on me: Taylor Branch’s history of the Civil Rights

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Cagey Squirrels

Squirrels are busy building nests and planning for offspring, and you can tell they’re in a hurry by the number of munched branch remnants which

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Getting in Touch with Her Feelings

Along with experiencing more social distancing than we ever wanted during the pandemic, we’ve also become attentive to the harmful effects of isolation and loneliness.

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“And made me free. . .”

All this tabloid talk brings us up to our necks in sleaze, but I don’t think Mr. Pecker should get the last word..  Once upon

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Seeing the cougar

A stream with no tributaries is a first-order stream. One with only first-order tributaries is second order and so-forth with ever increasing fractal complexity. So

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Promised Land?

Today, May 15, is known as The Nakba, the day 900,000 Palestinians became refugees when the state of Israel was formed in 1948. Today I

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Coming in second

Winning is wonderful. When we work hard, do our very best at a competitive thing, the thing goes really well, and we are the winners,

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Rethinking Revolution

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the French Revolution. I’m sure it’s been keeping you up at night, too. Please don’t stop reading!  As

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