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Shine, Perishing Republic

Memorial Day deserves a poem. Not the civil religious strains that once caught me at the altar rail at a small-town Episcopal church, receiving the

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Significant Soil

I don’t think I’m going to be able to plant a garden this year—which bums me out. But too much travel means I’ll not be at

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Uncommon Grace

Averagely scrumptious. Tolerably ravishing. Mediocrely luxurious. Do such phrases make sense you? How about “common grace.” A bit oxymoronic, perhaps? Is grace ever common and

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Matthew 2.0

Thanks to my colleagues, this blog has been hitting its stride in the last two weeks (IMHO), day after day taking on challenging, serious topics

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Body Ascension

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you–that everything written about me in

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Epitaph

Just a week or so ago, Frederick Manfred would have celebrated his 100th birthday, had he lived. He didn’t.  He died in 1994, from the complications

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Recovering Civility.

Confession I feel a bit awkward in writing this post. It is probably because I feel insufficient to be the one writing on this topic.

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