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  • Divine Reading for the First Sunday of Advent: An old practice for the new year

    Divine Reading for the First Sunday of Advent: An old practice for the new year

    This Advent our little nondenominational Bible church is taking time on Sunday mornings to sit quietly in the presence of the Word, patterning our time after a medieval practice that blends reading, contemplation, and prayer, called Lectio Divina.


    December 1, 2022
  • Another Transfiguration

    Another Transfiguration

    As on that mountain, as in this year, all our plans are overthrown, and following Jesus doesn’t look the way it did before.


    November 5, 2020
  • Truly Alien

    Truly Alien

    I was in Lexington, KY, in May of 1977 with my 2 younger brothers when Grandpa Wetzel dropped us off at the theater to see what he said was “Winnie-the-Pooh.”


    May 27, 2017
  • Revising the Story of the First Thanksgiving

    how can we receive the gifts history offers and use them to practice moral reflection, rather than judgement? Here’s the story we read as part of our celebration of an American Thanksgiving with church family and strangers from other shores.


    November 26, 2015
  • Realists of a Larger Reality

    “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.” – Ursala K. LeGuin


    November 19, 2014
  • Purity & Love

    Purity & Love

    “If only you saw what I can see, you’d understand why I need your modesty.” So… virtue = being careful to stay out of the way of the sinfulness of young men. “That’s what makes you beautiful.” Got it.


    February 14, 2014
  • The First Thanksgiving: Eight Lessons for Learning from History

    The First Thanksgiving: Eight Lessons for Learning from History

    Putting together a coherent story from evidence is hard work. No wonder we reach for story first and evidence after, unless the discipline of History can teach us better habits!


    November 14, 2013
  • A Thanksgiving Book Club

    An invitation to read with me through The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God & Learning from History .


    November 10, 2013
  • Ozeki’s “Tale” Entangles Readers

    Ozeki’s “Tale” Entangles Readers

    First sixteen pages Seventeen footnotes ask, “Is She making this up?” A Tale for the Time Being


    October 24, 2013
  • Learning to Smell

    “by practice alone…”


    August 3, 2013
  • Wounded & Holy

    Wounded & Holy

    Of course there is woundedness, but there is holiness as well. How the two come together — not which one wins, but how they join — constitutes the unique and profound meaning of one’s life: the emergence out of the maelstrom of the true self, transformed in Christ.


    April 27, 2013
  • The Breastplate of St. Patrick

    The Breastplate of St. Patrick

    I bind unto myself the power / Of the great love of the cherubim; / The sweet ‘well done’ in judgment hour, / The service of the seraphim, / Confessors’ faith, Apostles’ word, / The Patriarchs’ prayers, the Prophets’ scrolls, / All good deeds done unto the Lord, / And purity of virgin souls.


    March 17, 2013

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