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    "Camarado, I Give You my Hand"
    Jo Page
    • May 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    "Camarado, I Give You my Hand"

    Before I became a pastor, I worked for a couple of magazines. So I am used to thinking about Valentine's Day at Thanksgiving, shamrocks...
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    What Do You Do with a Bum in the Foyer?
    Jo Page
    • Apr 9, 2020
    • 3 min

    What Do You Do with a Bum in the Foyer?

    The hell if I know. Let's start here: The Hindu prayer goes like this: “Lead me from the unreal to the real.” The story of Lazarus is a...
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    "And the Stillness the Dancing"  (TS Eliot)
    Jo Page
    • Apr 3, 2020
    • 5 min

    "And the Stillness the Dancing" (TS Eliot)

    Those old-timey, old fart pastors! An aged parishioner told me that one time when he was a kid, he and a young friend ditched church to...
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    A Bag of Onions
    Jo Page
    • Mar 26, 2020
    • 3 min

    A Bag of Onions

    During our Zoom meeting this morning, a colleague the told story of how one of her parishioners was out of onions. She said her husband...
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    "The Daughters of Lions are Lions, too"
    Jo Page
    • Mar 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    "The Daughters of Lions are Lions, too"

    Elizabeth Warren ended her campaign just a couple of days before International Women's Day--ironically also the first day of Daylight...
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    Anti-Choice ≠ Pro-Life
    Jo Page
    • Feb 29, 2020
    • 3 min

    Anti-Choice ≠ Pro-Life

    Just a few days' shy of the end of Black History Month, a four-color poster from Life Dynamics Incorporated came across my desk at...
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    Trumping Love
    Jo Page
    • Feb 18, 2020
    • 3 min

    Trumping Love

    Confession: I actually somewhat agreed with an observation made by President Trump the other day. That was a first. You will recall that...
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    Easy Wind. And Downy Flake
    Jo Page
    • Jan 15, 2020
    • 3 min

    Easy Wind. And Downy Flake

    "The only other sound's the sweep/Of easy wind and downy flake." Maybe you don't recognize the quote. But you probably know this part:...
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    A Child Named Wonderful
    Jo Page
    • Dec 28, 2019
    • 9 min

    A Child Named Wonderful

    A Christmas story for people who are all grown up: The Rev. Stephen Bolden peeled off his gloves and climbed back into his car, cranking...
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    I Don't Know Why I Love You Like I Do
    Jo Page
    • Dec 18, 2019
    • 5 min

    I Don't Know Why I Love You Like I Do

    And the angel Gabriel came to Mary and said, ‘Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you.’ 29But she was much perplexed by his words...
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    Lift Up Your Hearts!
    Jo Page
    • Nov 25, 2019
    • 3 min

    Lift Up Your Hearts!

    Oh, no! It’s that time of year when we have to be grateful again! Last year a reporter from a local news outlet called the church I was...
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    In the Night. In the Dark.
    Jo Page
    • Nov 7, 2019
    • 3 min

    In the Night. In the Dark.

    The mums are wilted, Halloween is past and we have set back the clocks. Don't even try to tell me you've already adjusted to the...
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    The Saints Come Marching
    Jo Page
    • Oct 31, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Saints Come Marching

    The larger-than-life French writer, Francois Rabalais, is reported to have said on his deathbed, “I am going to see a great Perhaps. Draw...
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    Real Crossings, Real Lynchings
    Jo Page
    • Oct 28, 2019
    • 4 min

    Real Crossings, Real Lynchings

    After visiting Barcelona two summers ago, I travelled up the coastal road into France where, quite by accident, I happened to cross the...
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    Bad Air
    Jo Page
    • Sep 30, 2019
    • 3 min

    Bad Air

    In 2013, the German broadcasting network, Deutsche Welle, called Malala Yousefzai "the most famous teen-ager in the world" for her...
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    Living the Unlived Life?
    Jo Page
    • Sep 23, 2019
    • 3 min

    Living the Unlived Life?

    Writer Adam Phillips wrote Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life in order to explain why the lives we wished to have, but don’t--and...
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    Fear and Sanctuary
    Jo Page
    • Sep 4, 2019
    • 3 min

    Fear and Sanctuary

    Trust me, I don't want to start this column by quoting Martin Luther because then you will surely stop reading. But--please don't. "What...
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    Danish Martyr, Kai Munk, Speaks for Today
    Jo Page
    • Aug 7, 2019
    • 6 min

    Danish Martyr, Kai Munk, Speaks for Today

    Jesus told them this story: “The farm of a certain rich man produced a terrific crop. The man talked to himself: ‘What can I do? My barn...
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    How to Go Forward After the Fourth
    Jo Page
    • Jul 31, 2019
    • 3 min

    How to Go Forward After the Fourth

    I had a Fourth of July to make a patriotic soul happy. And I was. I packed us a picnic lunch and we made an early bee-line for Saratoga...
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    Summer Reading...Wait, What?
    Jo Page
    • Jul 9, 2019
    • 2 min

    Summer Reading...Wait, What?

    Hmmm. I'm not much of a summer-books-beach-reader. I didn't read Fifty Shades of Gray on a camp chair, feet in the sand, an Arnold Palmer...
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