Tag: Advent

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Controlled Burn

I wonder what needs a controlled burn in our culture right now, in our churches?

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Third Sunday in Advent: A Sestina

These candlelit evenings, ancient hope glimmers like a gift,gleams for a moment, then falters, slips to nothingin the circling of the year, our loves still

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Advent in the Wasteland

The whole creation groansAnd waits to hear that voiceThat shall restore her comelinessAnd make her wastes rejoice. I could observe here the traditional Christian pastime

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On Awkward Space

I don’t know why I answered ‘yes’ when a woman on the second of three massive concourses at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American

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The Power of Ritual

To finish off our book club this year, my best friend and I are reading Casper ter Kuile’s The Power of Ritual. The book is

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