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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 […]

15
Sep

Sometimes, It Takes a Book

In an age of algorithmic indignation and digital squawking, I’m tired of darting from one screenshot to another in a state of online outrage. I’m tired of clicking on links […]

10
Sep

Remembering Their Gifts

Poet Andrea Gibson died a little over two months ago from the cancer they lived with, loved through, and wrote on for the past three years. If you haven’t read […]

01
Sep

Your People

It’s a classic joke. Two parents look out over some household catastrophe, aghast at the chaos created by one small unattended person in a short time. Then one parent turns […]

27
Aug

War Always Hurts the Poor

War is not the great democratizer. It is the great demolisher.   War always hurts the poor.    The Bible records and predicts it all. There is no great violence in which […]

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