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Category Archives: Living as Apprentices
Just Walk into the Water!
In the book The Good Book, Writers Reflect on Favorite Bible Passages (see review here), A.J. Jacobs describes the problems he had deciding whether to write The Year of Living Biblically (which became a New York Times bestseller) or not. He … Continue reading
Creating a Sacred Space
“We yearn for rest, and our souls hunger to be fed, yet we seldom give ourselves permission to respond to these yearnings.” The answer to this dilemma, say authors Gerrie l. Grimsley and Jane J. Young,* is to create a … Continue reading
Finding my Manna
Chemotherapy has made all my favorite foods tasteless! No matter how much sugar I pour on my Cheerios and banana in the morning, I can’t taste it. My favorite lunch of popcorn tastes like cardboard. And my usual casseroles just … Continue reading
From the Jury Box to the Witness Stand
“Go, tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere Go, tell it on the mountain, That Jesus Christ is born.” During a recent Advent sermon, my pastor placed the well-known Scripture John 1:1-9 in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck Colson, Go Tell it on the Mountain, John Wesley Work, Jr., Prison Fellowship
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“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
This Christmas season I have been plagued by sleepless nights, a side effect of chemotherapy and other medication. The result has been nightly hours-long binges on Christmas music thanks to a local Christian radio station which features uninterrupted carols and … Continue reading
Living in Advent – Part 4, Waiting for Peace
This season of the Church’s liturgical year is a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus. The word “advent” is an anglicized version of the Latin word adventus, “coming.” We are waiting for … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jesus, Messiah, Prince of Peace
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Living in Advent – Part 3, Waiting for Joy
This season of the Church’s liturgical year is a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus. The word “advent” is an anglicized version of the Latin word adventus, “coming.” We are waiting for … Continue reading
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Tagged joy, Madeleine L'Engle, suffering
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It’s Time to Speak Out!
The New York Daily News has beaten me to it. For two days I have been wracking my brain for an appropriate statement from Hitler’s Germany to compare to Donald Trump’s demagoguery about Muslims. Today the cover of the Daily … Continue reading
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Tagged demagoguery, Donald Trump, Martin Niemoller, the least of these
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