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Sep 9, 2016
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
I would be shocked if anyone said the scene above was not beautiful: the sun setting over the Blue Ridge Mountains with the profile of...
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Sep 9, 2016
The Book of Job
Anyone who reads the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office, a two-year series of daily Bible readings arranged according to the Episcopalian...
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Sep 6, 2016
Samai and the Cambodian Tradition of Cupping
During the recent Olympics, these perfectly round spots began to show up on athletes. You probably heard them referred to as "cupping," a...
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Aug 5, 2016
The Apostles' Creed
I believe...
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Aug 3, 2016
Trees Fall Apart
(With apologies to W. B. Yeats) Blowing and blowing in the river winds the trees cannot bear the weight; Trees fall apart; included bark...
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Aug 1, 2016
Poetry can assuage pain
This is The Bishop’s Institute for Ministry & Leadership August 2016 book review of Carmen Bugan’s "Releasing the Porcelain Birds." Note...
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Jul 10, 2016
"...and who is my neighbor?" Luke 10. 25-37
Suppose we were to...draw the outline of a circle.... Let us suppose that this circle is the world, and that God is the center; the...
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May 24, 2016
Cancer in the Age of Technology
On Friday afternoon at 3:30 one week ago, I trudged into the house after a long hard first week back to teaching, and my mother and my...
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Apr 21, 2016
The Meaning of Life and grocery shopping!
It was just a quick trip to the grocery store to get food for dinner. My Chinese son, aka Lulu, and I were preparing for his last meal at...
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Apr 7, 2016
"The World is Too Much with Us"
Born on this day in 1770, William Wordsworth is known as the Father of Romantic Poetry, his most famous work "The Prelude" thought to be...
