Category: Blog

Desire and its Discontents

We are approaching the Season 5 finale of the AMC series Mad Men in a couple weeks, and although some fans have been dissatisfied with

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Something’s Missing

Walking my dogs past the small brick church two blocks away, with probably the largest yard of grass in the entire neighborhood it is most

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Moving Drama

Rained here Saturday night. My father-in-law’s little gauge–the old farmer in him couldn’t really live without one–registered three-quarters of an inch, a healthy rain. In

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Dear Rob Bell

Dear Rob: Please don’t think I’m being snarky posting an open letter to you.  But the issues you’ve raised over the last year or so

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Imperfection

This past week I set aside my academic work, picked up a flat bar and needle nose pliers, and set to work ripping up old

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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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