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Augustine and Hannah

Two pieces of my work this semester couldn’t be further apart–or at least they seem to be disconnected. I’m writing a book on Heavy Metal music.

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Remembering Holy Week

When I think back on my years of working as a pastor, I remember this time in the church calendar with the most affection and,

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Making Space

Possibly the best birthday present I’ve ever received was a room. (I share a birthday with Virginia Woolf, so perhaps it’s not surprising that it

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Blood

I am a fairly regular blood donor—which is sort of amazing given my squeamishness and dislike of needles. I find that if I look away

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Practicing the Sabbath

Today we welcome guest-blogger Grace Claus. Grace and her husband Dan are interim co-chaplains at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Grace blogs regularly at forsythiaroot.wordpress.com. 

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A Concert in the Cathedral

It requires a theology to build a church like St. Anthony of Padua, in Hoven, SD. A couple of grain farmers don’t just get together

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At the End, What’s Important

Some machine’s alarm repeatedly would sound off sending an annoying beep interrupting our conversation. I would rise, bend around the hospital curtain, turn the alarm

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