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I Want to Be Like the New Hal
His mother, stray and pregnant, appeared in the neighbor’s yard one day. Such an occurrence was not unusual. These neighbors had a clowder* of cats of their own, both inside and outside of the house. They kept food accessible to any stray cats, possums, or other creatures who were brave enough to venture to their…
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On Earth as It Is in Heaven
I don’t remember when I preached my first sermon, but I do remember when I preached my first Easter sermon. I was chaplain at a juvenile girls’ facility. That spring I experienced a spiritual crisis. A spiritual crisis is, well, a crisis for a vocational minister at any time but in the spring with Easter…
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And So, We Wait.
I wanted to name this post “The Day the World Held Its Breath” until I realized that the world did not and does not hold its breath on Holy Saturday. On the first Holy Saturday, Jesus’ followers were in mourning because their leader had been killed. They didn’t know what was next and they feared…
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