By 3 Jesus is dead, having spoken only seven times. The sky turns black, there is an earthquake, rocks split into, dead people come out of their graves, only to die once more. And we call this Good Friday.
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for Kenny and Katelyn, on covenant
March 21, 2016 
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Sacrifice is the essence of covenant making. And the sacrifice you both offer today is yourselves
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she shells sea shells
March 10, 2016 2 Comments
I’m not sure how I feel about Katie finding the best shell, seeing as how she is from Toledo. Perhaps this is beginner’s luck.
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balcony
March 6, 2016 1 Comment
surveying an ancient canvas
scrubbed clean
by tides and waves
be my Valentine(s)
February 13, 2016 0 Comments
Originally posted on the daysman:
It’s Valentine’s Day, or “single awareness day” as college students without a date often say. They may be confusing it with the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, when seven mobsters were killed in a Chicago gang feud. They do well to be confused about the significance of this holiday, since the…
Letters from Bharat; from mud to marble
February 6, 2016 0 Comments
Whenever we visit IBS, we are met by bright, positive, eager young men and women who want their lives, and the lives of their families, to be different. And better. There is poverty, yes. But there in no poverty mentality.
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they are playing our song
January 28, 2016 3 Comments
We have fallen in and out of love a hundred times, and we have seen the peaks and the valleys, from the sublime to the ridiculous. And we always come back to that covenant we have made and kept.
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Letters From Bharat: Oh, Calcutta
January 17, 2016 0 Comments
I wasn’t scared. I could easily have hailed a cab. I was just confused and wanted to find my way. On my own, if I could.
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Letters From Bharat: Sherpa
January 16, 2016 0 Comments
I’m not sure we will ever all come together as Michael Jackson’s song suggests. But I’m pretty sure young Chenju will never work on a tea farm.
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Advice millenials haven't asked for
The Ordination Papers
"I wouldn't have expected an 'ordination paper' to cause me to want to worship. But it did." -Rob Stewart
The Santa Papers
A seasonal favorite, all year long.
a rhythm of renewal
There are dolphins playing along the edges of the surf as the sun glints off the white-capped waves. We will go soon and walk beside them.
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