Category: Blog

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Pigeon Grace

I saw venison on the menu so, of course, I had to order it – knowing that the only deer in Africa is the romantically

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The Wisdom of Humility

Yesterday, I finally cleared away the pile of paper that had been slowly growing more and more mountainous on my side desk. It’s still cold

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Incongruous Saints

I was having my teeth cleaned the other day and noticed the hygienist was quietly singing along with the radio in the dentist’s office. The

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This is my new parish

I retired a few years ago, said goodbye to my last congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, moved to Holland, Michigan, and started a new life. I

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Thank You for Being Born

Still feeling a little burned out from the fall semester last month, I treated myself to a day off last month and wandered into a

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At 35,000 Feet

It probably wasn’t noted from your pulpit either, but this past January 23 was an epoch-ending day in the history of aviation. The last commercial

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Curiouser and Curiouser

When I was I college, I lived for three years on the Honors Floor, an intentional living-learning floor in the dorms for students who were,

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Auden & Ashes

You are dust, and to dust you shall return.Genesis 3.19 WeCroak Ian Thomas, a young Silicon Valley app designer, rented a room in the Brooklyn

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