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These Unpredictable Days
While this week has not been as packed as last week, there has been an unpredictability that has been both challenging and tiring. It comes from all sides, really, and can be good as much as it can be bad. … Continue reading
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Vistas Great and Small
I have to confess, it was a little different watching a show with a relatively humane sense of humor and a low rating on violence. But there was something very good about the first episode of All Creatures Great and … Continue reading
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Go for the Landscape, Stay for the Landscape
One of the side-effects of lockdown has been the transformation of my Twitter feed into a running journal of hiking through the Lake District and the highlands of Scotland. Which means I’m pretty excited about All Creatures Great and Small … Continue reading
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We Are Not Stretch Armstrong
Today was the first day of the week that I didn’t go home nursing a headache. Each day has been packed. Things came to a bit of a respite today now that my chapel talk for next week has been … Continue reading
Posted in Notes for a World's End, Teaching
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A Bit on Meaning
I’ve been thinking a lot about meaning these last few weeks, these last few days in particular. It seems to me that meaning comes from many different sources: God, family, friendship, and work, to name a few. It also seems … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, The Long Story
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On the Twelfth Night
Today is the twelfth, and final, day of Christmas. The older I get, the more I like the idea of twelve days of Christmas following the season of Advent, and not just because it “prolongs” things. There’s almost no way … Continue reading
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Christmastide’s End
The twelve days of Christmas are coming to an end. And while I do have some reflections on the season, I thought I’d share one more song clip before the clock marks the end of the first day of the … Continue reading
“Upon Further Reflection”
This time last week I was wrapping up a mini-retreat at a hotel a little closer to the water. It’s the second time that I’d done it this year. The first was earlier in the school year, when I was … Continue reading
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“You Can Only Take So Much”
“Walk On” has been one of my favorite U2 songs for two decades now. So it was a bit of a surprise when I came across this recent rendition of the song by Bono and the Edge and heard the … Continue reading
Screwtape and the Spiritual Life
I’ve been on a C. S. Lewis kick these last couple of months. It started with finally getting around to reading his Reflections on the Psalms. Definitely not the book I thought it would be, but brilliant nonetheless. Then I … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 