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The Closer
It was my sixth grade teacher, Miss Kathleen Tivnan, who taught me about the four chambers of the heart and the functions of arteries and...
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Nov 10, 20173 min read
Bodies at Rest and in Motion
Three years ago, vacationing in Rome, I was mesmerized at the Piazza Navona. It wasn’t simply the masterful marble—the Fountain of the...
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Oct 20, 20173 min read
Boy Scout? Or Faithful Little Woman.
“Every Camp Fire Girl must understand that the secret of her life, whether for joy or for sorrow, lies in herself. If she wishes success...
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Oct 6, 20173 min read
Yom Kippur, A Solemn Fast for a Sweeter World
This year Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and one of the two highest holy days in the Jewish calendar, begins on the day that I will...
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Sep 27, 20172 min read
Tag. You're It!
I am writing this on a Saturday night, midway through the tag sale that I hope will culminate on Sunday in a mad rush with people buying...
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Sep 18, 20177 min read
Nix on the Nashville Statement
“For those who want to save their life will lose it…..” These are notorious words of Jesus from Matthew’s gospel. They have, for...
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Sep 2, 20175 min read
Going to Meet the Man
James Baldwin's short story, "Going to Meet the Man" may be the one story we need to read in these times. Masterfully, but agonizingly...
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Aug 28, 20172 min read
Charlottesville. Sermon, 8.13.17.
Let me begin by saying that, on Monday afternoon, when I read the lessons for this Sunday morning, I was excited. Once in a very, very...
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Aug 13, 20177 min read
Skin in the Game: Eyes Without a Face
There is a pun here somewhere: I can’t seem to figure out how to wrap my mind around the movie “Eyes Without a Face.” A classic 1960...
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Jul 27, 20173 min read
Pilgrim in Dogtown
Smack dab in the center of Cape Ann--Massachusetts’ “other cape”--is Dogtown Commons, over 3000 acres of storied wilderness full of...
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Jul 12, 20173 min read
Awash in Puddles
The rain is raining all around. It falls on field and tree. It rains on the umbrellas here And on the ships at sea. --Robert Louis...
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Jun 14, 20174 min read
Enchantment, Evil--and Innocent Children
I am always both haunted and horrified by Schubert's setting of the Goethe poem, "Die Erlkonig." If you don't know it, it's more than...
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Jun 1, 20174 min read
You Can Dance if You Want To
This is a posting about dancing. But first: In Nautilus magazine, journalist Daniel Gross writes about a “silent disco” party at South...
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Apr 13, 20173 min read
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me
Okay, so this morning I was filling in at a colleague's church and it was time for the Children's Time/Sermon/Moment--it's called...
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Mar 17, 20173 min read
Testosterone and Memoir
By some strange coincidence, I find myself reading three very different memoirs by three very different white men. I’ve just finished...
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Feb 8, 20173 min read
Kitchen Aid
Watch carefully because I’m about accomplish this fancy, journalistic sleight of hand in which I start this post in a curmudgeonly vein...
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Jan 26, 20173 min read
About Suffering They Were Never Wrong, the Old Masters
In Greek mythology, Daedalus was the great craftsman, capable creating anything—which would make him a good web designer! He is credited...
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Jan 12, 20174 min read
"In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See"
I’ve always been drawn to the poet Theodore Roethke’s line, “In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” It’s the first line of an eponymous...
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Oct 21, 20163 min read
Love's Labors Not Lost
Labor Day picnic, three years ago: by the time we got to the lime sugar cookies and the last of the strawberry-basil cocktails at the end...
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Sep 14, 20163 min read
Give Us Pleasure in the Flowers Today
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the...
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Aug 18, 20163 min read
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