Lovely and All We Have

“And the words we find
are always insufficient, like love,
though they are often lovely
and all we have.”
—Stephen Dunn, “Those of Us Who Think We Know”

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Who Is Important?

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I was recently at a large church gathering, where a designated group of volunteers were in charge of shuttling us to the campus where we wo...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Stay in the Stream

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For Pastor Ross in Australia, who missed this blog and was kind enough to write and tell me so even though we have never met in person . . ...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

It's Not Working for Me

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Recently I heard the modern-day prophet and poet Walter Brueggemann speak about the Psalms. He said before we can receive the counter-worl...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Go

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Reading Genesis again I am struck by how often the Lord God says to Abram “Rise up and move your tent” or “Go.” And he goes. Later he even s...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Certain

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“The first noel, the angel did say, was to certain poor shepherds …” The shepherds always seem to be on the edges of the nativity scen...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Advent: Finding the Way Home

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There is a stretch of country I drive on my way to work where the sky blends so seamlessly into the land that it’s hard to tell where the ho...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

A Holy Pause: Remembering 9/11

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Ten years later and the news, to borrow a phrase from Wordsworth, is “too much with us.” Bombarded with images of burning towers, stories of...
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