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February 2022

February 21, 2022
The books tell you the boats will come back, after the brief turbulence of sea;...

January 2022

January 24, 2022
I'm afraid I left you to untangle the lights.

December 2021

December 17, 2021
Men's Nunn Bush shoes, wide width Tic Tacs Peppermints Altoids (Seriously, what is it with...

November 2021

November 01, 2021
At this particular thin place we meet so many things, but one of them is...

October 2021

October 23, 2021
"Just in time" is over. The full toll it took on us is only beginning...

September 2021

September 27, 2021
  I've recently been watching previous episodes of the famous BBC TV program (I should...

August 2021

August 11, 2021
Written in 2014 to honor the first anniversary of the death of a beloved college...

June 2021

June 05, 2021
Maybe the best metaphor for autism is that other one about ducks - being nibbled...

May 2021

May 26, 2021
As COVID slowly reduces its risk to the level of risks I accept every day...
May 12, 2021
Here's a friendly reminder we're still in the strange almost post-COVID Easter season....

March 2021

March 25, 2021
Zoom can put lipstick on you. Really.

February 2021

February 26, 2021
Long ago, when people could gather together, in a friendly neighborhood place that could have doubled...

January 2021

January 30, 2021
Being a hermit is hard. It was hard, as Merton's story shows, even for a man...
January 11, 2021
I wish I actually knew how to live a faithful political life in this earthly...

December 2020

December 28, 2020
What we need, I think, is not a bifurcation between "real" and "online" life, but...
December 06, 2020
This has not much to do with money or economics. It has something to do...

November 2020

November 07, 2020
This is my childhood's paradox: we had no fear that asking all the classic theological...
November 03, 2020
Most gestures are empty gestures. Voting might be a gesture.

September 2020

September 02, 2020
There is no logical, or sacramental, or doctrinal connection between the persistent dryer ball that...

August 2020

August 08, 2020
You couldn't do any better if you had designed a virus precisely to take out...
August 01, 2020
There is nothing that could be calculated to make the exact subset of American citizens...

July 2020

July 07, 2020
I will readily spend countless hours explaining to other American citizens why other countries do...
July 05, 2020
Sabbath is necessary, and this one was overdue. But the thing about sabbaths is that...

June 2020

June 30, 2020
It's an oft-repeated truism that it's actually people who have very little who give the...

May 2020

May 16, 2020
We have a desire to create art, to sing and talk and act and breathe...
May 11, 2020
Many things most essential to being human turn out to be things that require close...

April 2020

April 01, 2020
It cut me like a knife with the imperfection of it all - not the...

March 2020

March 16, 2020
The world has pushed itself to its limit, and now we, collectively (though not yet...
March 10, 2020
What I don’t know is if this is a praiseworthy tale of the ability of...

January 2020

January 24, 2020
What if the world operates in such a way that if we ever try to...
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