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That searing stemwinder

  Our lindens are just about the tallest trees in town, I swear.  And there he was, high up top, singing his heart out, that

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Spring Chickens

Today is one of those lovely spring days you get when it seems as though life is simply bursting forth exuberantly all around. Birds are

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Breaking One’s Spirit

For various reasons across the last year or two, I have been involved in some faith-and-science conversations.  One topic that has come up often of

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The Rabbi’s Question

“If the Messiah had come,” the rabbi asked, “would the world be the way that it is?”  How would you answer the rabbi’s question?  He

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Bored

A friend made an interesting comment a few days ago – suggesting that it seems people get bored with Christianity.  Not in a “religion vs.

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“Nothing Gold Can Stay”

Cast up on the shores of survival after virtually non-stop teaching since the first week of January, I head off on spring break tomorrow. Going

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The Problem with Certitude

Because of the tendency for our notions and experiences of God to become rigid and prescribed, we—both individuals and communities—need to stand ever ready to

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