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November 2022

November 30, 2022
{Perhaps my favorite thing about this season is reminding readers (and myself) how subversive are...
November 26, 2022
Perhaps my favorite thing about this season is reminding readers (and myself) how subversive are...
November 22, 2022
{This is a particularly vulnerable column. But in the sense that the deeply personal can...
November 16, 2022
Whenever we talk about God, or the incarnational role of Jesus, we use metaphors. The...
November 11, 2022
First, a few years back, Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens (2014) enthralled me. Now he’s...
November 05, 2022
An overheard conversation brought to mind a deeply regrettable goodbye. The memory stings, as such...
November 01, 2022
Because today is All Saints’ Day, I’m remembering my best friend who died just over...

October 2022

October 29, 2022
Lately I’ve stumbled on materials about why we believe what we believe. Those who study...
October 27, 2022
I take particular care when writing about abortion because the issue is not black and...
October 25, 2022
To what extent can humans know and understand God? a reader asks. In answering, I...
October 19, 2022
{Four years ago at this time, I was at Walden Pond. Before the trip, I...
October 15, 2022
For well over a year, the tree has been silent. But at first, it was...
October 12, 2022
The parable in this Sunday’s lectionary reading (Luke 18:1-8) about a widow’s persistence before an...
October 08, 2022
These days, many in the US and globally see our collective, national waters as troubled....
October 05, 2022
“Wade in the water. God’s gonna trouble the water.” In the centuries-old spiritual, we’re told...
October 01, 2022
The good thing about the lectionary—or the bad thing, if you see it that way—is...

September 2022

September 28, 2022
In the earliest photo of us, I am concealed behind the bloom of Wren’s baptismal...
September 24, 2022
Learning to kneel took me decades. It was not something I did in my upbringing;...
September 19, 2022
I am somewhat haunted by a woman I passed in Florence, Italy while vacationing in...
September 17, 2022
A close friend is going through a time. Many of us have been there: that...
September 14, 2022
In the lectionary, we’re reading about lost things. Specifically, this past Sunday, the parables of...
September 10, 2022
Because I am no expert on the royal family or Queen Elizabeth, I find myself...
September 06, 2022
“I will follow you wherever you go,” people told Jesus (Luke 9:51-62). But then they...
September 02, 2022
Recently I sold a soul-cottage I built in 2007 on the cusp of Oregon, 15...

August 2022

August 30, 2022
Everything we read, including everything we read in the Bible, is colored by culture, and...
August 28, 2022
Of late, some of my closest companions are animals—several cats and one dog. With a...
August 24, 2022
This week’s lectionary gospel (Luke 13:10-17) shows, along with other healing stories, how Jesus taught...
August 20, 2022
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” Frederick Buechner...
August 17, 2022
No author has impacted my life as has Frederick Buechner. Not only have I read...
August 16, 2022
One day last week, two friends wrote out of the blue to express that they...
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