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July 2007

July 13, 2007
We're still waving goodbye to the caravan of Baptists that came through town a few...
July 10, 2007
People weren’t meant to fly.That’s what I told her when she told me there are...
July 08, 2007
Hannah (10) and Sammy (9) and I (no comment) were driving home from church discussing...
July 04, 2007
It's a little dangerous for the preacher to get political, I know. It's risky to...

June 2007

June 30, 2007
The phrase sounds ominous to my “punitive-religion” DNA . . . makes me think of...
June 26, 2007
My office has a back door. Whoever designed it that way, I want to publicly...
June 23, 2007
History, history. It's all around us. And by "us" I mean anybody in or near...
June 20, 2007
I got back into town very late last night (really, very early this morning) having...
June 15, 2007
The Baptists are coming.I was trying to explain to Washington Post Religion reporter Michelle Boorstein...
June 15, 2007
I hate that sappy platitude: home is where your heart is. Whenever I hear it...
June 14, 2007
Seems you can’t live too long on this earth without realizing that human relationships involve...
June 01, 2007
Stanley Hauerwas created a monster.I don't think he necessarily meant to, but I’m just saying...

May 2007

May 28, 2007
. . . from Elizabeth Strout’s sad and deeply true book Abide With Me. This...
May 23, 2007
The other day I was shaken into the reality of my own inability to see...
May 18, 2007
The folks over at the John Leland Center invited me to come speak to a...
May 15, 2007
There are days when I feel absolutely certain I have the weirdest job on the...
May 09, 2007
The last few weeks in worship we've been reading those beautiful passages from Revelation 7...
May 03, 2007
Faith and ForgivenessA night of theater and discussionMust we forgive an unconscious evil deed? Does...
May 01, 2007
Homework adventures lately include the memorization of Robert Frost’s poem, Mowing.For days we’ve been watching...

April 2007

April 27, 2007
I’ve been pondering how to write about this week I’ve had, which has perhaps been...
April 26, 2007
Please meet the tremendous people with whom I spend most of my professional life. I...
April 23, 2007
As usual, a variety of different experiences dovetailed in my life recently, bringing up the...
April 18, 2007
Just add this one to the topics I must have missed in seminary: “horrible human...
April 17, 2007
One of his friends called it “the best event in a young boy’s life”. (Who...
April 13, 2007
"It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The kingdom...
April 11, 2007
I totally stole that phrase from another church. Or should I say, “borrowed with the...
April 09, 2007
The air was crisp, the sun was bright, the crowd was large and energetic. It...
April 09, 2007
"He is Risen" by He Qi
April 06, 2007
Holy Week is rather intense around our house, primarily because Mom is working a lot...
April 03, 2007
Written 3/12/07My name is Amy and I am a church nerd.This is not some new...
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