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What are you worried about?
“Cast all your anxiety on [God] because He cares for you.” – 1 Peter 5:7, NRSV What does that mean exactly? And maybe more tellingly, what does it mean that I regularly turn up as the guy who forgets… Continue reading
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In Pursuit of Rightness
As Edwin Friedman first reminded us, anxious times bring with them an overpowering need for certainty. And the times have rarely been more anxious for the United Methodist Church than they are right now. For starters, this denomination is experiencing… Continue reading
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WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR – General Conference 2016
I am not a delegate to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church, which begins on Tuesday, May 10. I will, however, be in Portland, Oregon coincidentally visiting family at that time. And so I am planning to take… Continue reading
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Roses and Popcorn
I have been thinking about a lot of different things during the past week. Many of them have to do with the events of Holy Week… some have to do with a major imminent imminent change in my life… and others… Continue reading
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Grace on the highways
Today’s post begins with this huge and prominent disclaimer: DON’T DO THIS! Like, EVER! OK? So… back in the early 70s (when it still wasn’t terribly safe) I did a fair amount of hitchhiking. I happened to be one of… Continue reading
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Healing is not forgetting
They said “Never Forget.” And yet I almost did. I have to confess… I had a whole other idea underway for today’s E-Note. I thought it was a pretty decent idea, too, so I will just hold on to… Continue reading
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summer passion
If you had never heard them before, the noise would be enough to drive you a little nutty, I imagine. When walking outdoors on a summer evening, I find I often have to raise my voice a notch or two… Continue reading
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the guy in the other car
I glanced over to the right and looked. Not a long, lingering, borderline-creepy sort of “stalker look,” you understand. Just enough of a look to see what the person looked like who had just made that really annoying maneuver in… Continue reading
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Between the terrarium and the museum
As I was driving past another new shopping center development in the suburb where I live earlier this week, I was struck by two vivid – and yet directly contradictory – thoughts. The first thought was, “This is so COOL to… Continue reading
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Where’s my hoverboard?
Where is my hoverboard? Where is my flying car? Where, oh where are the meals that I can magically summon from my home computer screen? Oh, wait a minute… sorry… I forgot about www.papajohns.com. Remember all of the miraculous technological… Continue reading
Russellings of the Spirit 