

Four Generations and Hurricane Matthew: Seeing the Positives!
As Hurricane Matthew barreled across the Caribbean, four generations gathered at my son's house. From ages 82 to three months, we...
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Oct 14, 2016


"You Have to be Careful"
You have to be careful telling things. Some ears are tunnels. Your words will go in and get lost in the dark. Some ears are flat pans...
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Oct 14, 2016


Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
I would be shocked if anyone said the scene above was not beautiful: the sun setting over the Blue Ridge Mountains with the profile of...
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Sep 9, 2016


The Book of Job
Anyone who reads the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office, a two-year series of daily Bible readings arranged according to the Episcopalian...
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Sep 9, 2016


Samai and the Cambodian Tradition of Cupping
During the recent Olympics, these perfectly round spots began to show up on athletes. You probably heard them referred to as "cupping," a...
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Sep 6, 2016


The Apostles' Creed
I believe...
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Aug 5, 2016


Trees Fall Apart
(With apologies to W. B. Yeats) Blowing and blowing in the river winds the trees cannot bear the weight; Trees fall apart; included bark...
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Aug 3, 2016


Poetry can assuage pain
This is The Bishop’s Institute for Ministry & Leadership August 2016 book review of Carmen Bugan’s "Releasing the Porcelain Birds." Note...
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Aug 1, 2016


"...and who is my neighbor?" Luke 10. 25-37
Suppose we were to...draw the outline of a circle.... Let us suppose that this circle is the world, and that God is the center; the...
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Jul 10, 2016


Cancer in the Age of Technology
On Friday afternoon at 3:30 one week ago, I trudged into the house after a long hard first week back to teaching, and my mother and my...
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May 24, 2016



