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Thursday Look-Backs
THERE WAS A TIME when Thursday nights were almost sacred. It was the turn of the millennium, and Thursday evening was all about the battle between watching Survivor and Friends. I would make the trek to some friends’ apartment, usually … Continue reading
Tenth Post and My Favorite Song of All Time?
I THINK WordPress might throw me a party for getting up to a tenth post here. Well, not really. But they do count down for you, for your first ten at least. And so here it is. If you’re reading … Continue reading
Stop. Go. Stop Again.
THESE LAST FEW DAYS have been packed . . . and rainy. . . and windy. The end of the a quarter is always a stressful time, especially when it involves major things beyond the classroom. This quarter has been … Continue reading
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After the Academy Awards
THE ACADEMY AWARDS have been over and done for a few days now, and I’ve not said much about them. Most of my friends these days aren’t all that into the movies. (It’s like that weird moment when you realize … Continue reading
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The Big Picture for Beginners and Forgetters
ONE OF THE STRANGE DIFFICULTIES of twenty-first century Christian faith in America is that it is so flat. In our attempt to make and keep things simple, we have committed a unfortunate reduction. The “heaven or hell gambit” has been … Continue reading
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Learning and Lent
HOPEFULNESS seems like a strange way to start the season of Lent, I suppose. With a closer look, though, I think we’d find every religious impulse, every act of faith, so somehow rooted in hope. Even discipline. Perhaps with discipline … Continue reading
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Shades of Blue
OVERLAP between two of my favorite websites or areas of interest can be fairly rare. Sure, the genre of LOST makes it a little more likely to have shown up on a “comic book” website, but it’s almost unheard of … Continue reading
The Importance of Being Mosby
The First in an Occasional Series of Reflections on a Monday Night Television Show GOOD NETWORK SITCOMS aren’t easy to come by these days. Some are quite popular but also pretty flat. Others find themselves revolving around overly-obnoxious characters a … Continue reading
The Enduring Question of Race
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF TOPICS that I really have no business talking about. One of those is racism. The other is sports. Don’t get me wrong: I know about racism, though I’ve rarely experienced it. I think it’s one … Continue reading
What Do You See?
PROCESS is something that everyone goes through, everyone takes part in. Growth, change, pruning, beginning again. Sometimes it’s personal; often it’s professional. For the last year, I’ve served on my church’s pastor search committee. When you’re in a process that … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 