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12
Nov

Learn and Believe

What do you do when you don’t know what you believe anymore because you don’t know what to believe anymore? Seemingly each day a new threat, new reality, new horror that shakes […]

02
Nov

Built on Injustice

Every year, my smallish town in Pennsylvania holds the earliest Halloween parade in the area. On the second Tuesday in October, participants including Scout troops, Little League teams, dance studios, […]

29
Oct

Urgent: Help Us Get Food in Hands—This Week!

The need is spiking—fast. As SNAP and WIC supports disappear and health coverage slips beyond reach for so many Americans, many in our community will go hungry. And—as the pandemic […]

21
Oct

The Feast at the Feeder

Working from home occasionally gives me time to watch the birds at my feeder: sweet chickadees, upside-down nuthatches, tufted titmice, tiny goldfinches yellowing up by the day. But it’s the […]

14
Oct

Such a Time

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is […]

08
Oct

Keep Hope Alive

Those engaged in the current efforts to censure and erase certain inconvenient truths about American history from public school curriculums may not understand the critical role those inconvenient truths play […]

22
Sep

Burning Like a Fire

I’ll say this for the psalms: they’re honest. Psalm 17 ends by wishing for vengeance, vengeance big enough and painful enough that there’s suffering left over for the enemies’ kids […]

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