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September 2020

September 02, 2020

The Summer of the Dryer Ball

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

August 2020

August 08, 2020

We Are All in One Room Together, Talking, Singing, and Yelling

You couldn't do any better if you had designed a virus precisely to take out...

July 2020

July 07, 2020

Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and American Exceptionalism

I will readily spend countless hours explaining to other American citizens why other countries do...

July 05, 2020

Coronavirus Monastery

Sabbath is necessary, and this one was overdue. But the thing about sabbaths is that...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

God is Extravangant

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

April 2020

April 01, 2020

I Want to Bless People. In Person.

It cut me like a knife with the imperfection of it all - not the...

January 2020

January 24, 2020

What If I Never Catch Up?

What if the world operates in such a way that if we ever try to...

December 2019

December 19, 2019

Merry Advent

The kingdom of justice and peace that George Bailey wants, for two hours, just does...

October 2019

October 23, 2019

So Why *Are* Boomers Like That?

I was fascinated by the people who had to build a new world after everything...

July 2019

July 12, 2019

Running a Marathon Like a Sprint

Three weeks ago, just after we moved, I was in Kroger, shopping. When I shop...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

One Move is the Equivalent of Three Fires

If, like me, you are someone who depends very heavily for your sanity on having...

May 2019

May 20, 2019

Phone Menus and the Uncanny Valley

We are now trying to pretend this is an actual human interaction. It's not. It's...

April 2019

April 23, 2019

Surprised By Easter

It has not been an Easter kind of spring.

April 09, 2019

Why Am I So Tired?

I've been thinking often about how there are so many things that were done by...

March 2019

March 22, 2019

This is My Content, Tweeted for You

There are thousands of digital ways to deliver spiritual content and in my more Luddite...

March 07, 2019

All the Tiny Little Pieces

Take one boss and imagine him or her setting a course for the next few...

February 2019

February 09, 2019

Grieving While Productive

Yesterday I wrote on my Facebook page "The Victorians had the right idea. Put black...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

Being From a Long Line of People Outstanding in Their Field….

....means you may end up contemplating Neville Longbottom and writing this poem. "Of your charity,...

March 2018

March 20, 2018

Joy, Toil, Rest, Busyness, and Being Back

You can picture me over the last few weeks being overscheduled. But you can also...

January 2018

January 09, 2018

Hospitality and Vocation (It’s Tricky)

How could I know what it means to be endlessly choosing out of a world...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

Life: It’s An Embodied Kind of Thing

Bodies matter. They matter at work and they matter at play.

December 23, 2017

It’s Really Hard to Say Anything About Work At This Time of the Year that Isaac Watts Didn’t Already

For all my gentle prodding of the faith and work movement, there's one thing it...

December 18, 2017

Thoughts About Being Sick

Something else to think about while you're in bed: is it you, or is it...

December 01, 2017

Second Birth

That advent is a longer one, and hard: Its carols have thorns in them, and...

November 2017

November 23, 2017

#nowthankweallourgod #thanksgiving

The goodness of the created order. Positive images of mothers. Harmony by Bach. We sang...

November 17, 2017

Yes, You Can Write Poems About Archival Files

Within the files where no one ever goes, mortality reigns.

November 10, 2017

What is Our Real Work?

What are we learning from the time when we become the impeded stream?

November 03, 2017

This is Country Music, and Explains a Lot of Other Things, Too

I grew up listening to country music. But as an adult, at least for a...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

Poetic Legacy: A poem about poets

My head is full of poems tonight: They echo in a speaking voice and tell...

October 23, 2017

Seeking Full Salvation: A Poem for Another Vocation

I would have gone the simple way if I had known my choice.