Declaring Interdependence on the Fourth
These are stirring and familiar words from The Declaration of Independence: Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just...
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- Mar 23, 2016
- 3 min
Healing the World
My religious observances run the usual Judeo-Christian gamut with the occasional Hindu celebration thrown in (you know how we do, dear...
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- Feb 22, 2016
- 3 min
Fear Wastes Air
It turns out that I like the poem whose last line is “Fear wastes air.” But that’s only because I sat with the poem for a long time and...
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- Jan 17, 2016
- 1 min
And, Yes, The Dress Still Fits (Sort of)
It's coming out in March and I couldn't be happier about it. Here's what SUNY Press has to say about PREACHING IN MY YES DRESS: "A...
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- Dec 7, 2015
- 3 min
Bataclan
Until a few days ago, few knew the gibberish-sounding word “Bataclan” or had any idea that it was a theater built by French architect...
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- Nov 13, 2015
- 3 min
Loss Markers
One of the ways I drive to work in Albany, NY, takes me down Sand Creek Road to Everett Road, just past where Jacquelyn Porreca was...
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- Aug 26, 2015
- 3 min
Let's Play Dodgeball!
Is there such a thing as forgetting how to write? I’ve never, ever thought so. Because from the time I was a schoolgirl, being dragged...
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- Jul 4, 2015
- 1 min
Saratoga: Fourth of July
To the man carrying the newborn in two hands, like an offering, To the ten-year-old busker with skinny legs and too-big guitar, To the...
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- Jun 28, 2015
- 8 min
Naming Names
The text for the sermon is from 1 John. Hear the word of the Lord: See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called...
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- Sep 12, 2013
- 3 min
When Being a Wife was More Controversial Than Being a Bishop
When the Rev. Elizabeth Eaton was elected as the Evangelical Church in America’s first female presiding bishop, it made news. After all,...
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- Jul 21, 2013
- 2 min
For some, "nice" is another "n" word
I'm more than willing to accept the fact that my hipness factor is non-existent and I fly below the radar of popular culture. I do not...
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- Jun 27, 2013
- 2 min
Unsure and Certain Hope
It’s the night before I’m leading a funeral service for a former parishioner who died suddenly this past Saturday while the regular...
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- Jun 16, 2013
- 3 min
Decorating with Edgar Allen Poe
What? This surprises you? But in fact, the man who gave us "The Purloined Letter," "The Tell-Tale Heart" and that classic verbatim on...
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- May 30, 2013
- 2 min
The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry
I'm not one of these people who can tell you what I'd take if I were to be stranded on a desert island (duh, a basketball named Wilson,...
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- May 25, 2013
- 3 min
"Provide, Provide!"
It's one of Frost's best poems, that one about Abishag (in Frost's words, " the picture pride of Hollywood") sent in to seduce King David...
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- May 13, 2013
- 3 min
Little Girl Lost
It’s not news that parents of prodigiously talented children can be ruthlessly ambitious and even abusive to them. Bobby Fischer’s...
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- May 13, 2013
- 2 min
The Wild New England Shore
I had to chuckle. Okay, maybe it was more of a snarl. But it was some form of an amused sound I made when I read The Massachusetts...
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- May 6, 2013
- 2 min
Swaying the Fearful Chandelier
Over a dozen years ago I had a colleague who said he didn't believe there was a husband in the world who wasn't made happy by coming...
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- Apr 30, 2013
- 4 min
The Cherry Tree House
I don’t know where I found the 100abandonedhouses.com website, but I know that once I started looking at the images of once-elegant and...
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- Apr 27, 2013
- 3 min
from the archives, a Doctor Who introduction
I have just finished watching, over the course of a week, the 2005 season of “Dr. Who.” I didn’t do this voluntarily, of course. At...
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