Category: Blog

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Thanks for coming

Writing on these Sundays in July, I decided to go back to my childhood on an Iowa farm and all the treasures I learned from

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All Kinds of Lost

There was a game that my family used to play in the car sometimes, back when I was around seven or eight years old. The

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Are you the one?

In January of 1992 I joined a week-long educational trip to El Salvador. That same month marked the end of a fifteen-year civil war in

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A Place in the Heart

When this blog goes live, I will hopefully be thousands of feet in the air over the mid-Atlantic, on my way to the Netherlands for

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Tending

We’re past the halfway mark of the summer, and I can feel myself beginning to hold on too tightly. My anxiety rises as I wake

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Pew 18

Belief, Belonging, and the Guy in Pew 18’s Trouble Moving Further Up and Further In The pews in our historic sanctuary are numbered, a vestige

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Cropduster Conundrum

Writing on these Sundays in July, I decided to go back to my childhood on an Iowa farm and all the treasures I learned from

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Perchance to Dream

Weary from contention, seeking escape, I try to rest. Even rest feels hard, hard like dry ground. A pillow flattened into stone. Tension in my

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