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December 2012

December 30, 2012

What a Day for a Daydream!

It turns out I’m not as good at daydreaming as I used to be. When...

December 28, 2012

Love & Grief: Two Sides of the Same Coin

One night as the on-call hospital chaplain, I witnessed the end of three marriages, each...

December 15, 2012

The Day After Newtown: Finding Our Way

And so we wake up the morning after, and it wasn’t a dream. The children...

November 2012

November 04, 2012

How to Vote as an Act of Prayer

We’d love to cast a vote for compassion, freedom, justice. But they’re not on the...

October 2012

October 21, 2012

Fireworks

Truth be told, I don’t feel like writing a blog this morning. I just feel...

September 2012

September 29, 2012

Be Here Later, or Be There Now?

I finally cleaned the back yard the other day, a task I had spent several...

September 28, 2012

Yes. Thank you. I love you.

This week I attended the memorial service of a beloved soul light. First my professor,...

September 04, 2012

Run for Your Life!

I have always been fairly athletic, and I enjoy playing a good game that gets...

September 02, 2012

Friends: The Spice of Life

If most of our life consists of basic repetitive tasks that are simple and predictable—some...

August 2012

August 05, 2012

August: The Year’s Midlife Crisis

                  I think August is the midlife...

July 2012

July 10, 2012

It Could Have Been Otherwise

We spent the Fourth of July like many others do.  We got together with family...

June 2012

June 23, 2012

A Moving Experience

My ministry in Philadelphia has led me to have two homes: a house in Central...

June 08, 2012

Human Kindness

Imagine this: The day is hot and the line at the gas station is long....

June 04, 2012

Spiritual Drought & Restoration

I have to be mindful of the baskets of flowers that hang below the eaves....

June 03, 2012

Haunting Conversations

I moved away from Minneapolis to live in Boston and DC from 1989-2004, and then...

May 2012

May 27, 2012

Give It All Away! Wisdom of the plants

These days, as spring turns to summer, the garden is insistent with one message:  Give...

May 25, 2012

Safe Harbor

Press power on the remote control, television on and every moment of viewing we are...

May 18, 2012

Holy Curiosity

In the story of the Little Prince, there is a compelling scene in which he...

May 17, 2012

Whatever You Decide Is Perfect

One of the things about being a parish minister is that your schedule is constantly...

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