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Apr 2, 2012
A Week of Holy
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On Sunday morning, we wave our palms and sing Hosanna in the Highest. And I am swept up in the raucous celebration—wondering if the stones are indeed crying out. Yet in the midst of this... Read More + |
Apr 29, 2011
PhotoPlay Gallery: Finding Light
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Thanks for joining us this month. Our PhotoPlay challenge was a difficult one because it required a manual setting and it had an introspective element to it due to Lent and Easter. I hope that... Read More + |
Apr 22, 2011
Year of Plenty
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In 2008 a young suburban family of four set out to consume everything according to four rules: local, used, homegrown, and homemade. Year of Plenty tells the story of that year and offers a... Read More + |
Apr 21, 2011
Matching Socks: Lenten Reflections on Working at Home
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The final days of Lent are hazardous, riveting, deadly. They make me jittery. I feel as if I exist in two places. I am aware, all the time, of what is going on in that great Other Space, that... Read More + |
Apr 15, 2011
PhotoPlay: Undress Your Landscape
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He would always miss my class on a Friday. At first this weekly habit annoyed me and then one day he invited me to visit his nursery in the forest. He wanted to show me how to comb a mountain... Read More + |
Apr 15, 2011
The Passion in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
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The great twentieth-century author J.R.R. Tolkien did not like intentional or conscious allegory. Certainly his fantastic writings do not lend themselves to interpretations in the same way that... Read More + |
Apr 8, 2011
Random Acts of Poetry: Five Dollar Forgiveness
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When I was in high school, I had to borrow money every once in a long while, but often it was the other way around. On one occasion, I remember handing out a $5 bill to buy a friend’s burger. I... Read More + |
Apr 8, 2011
Spelunking: A Lenten Reflection
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For the first 200 feet or so past the entrance, daylight tumbles down into the corridor of boulders and forest debris. It makes the wet surfaces glisten. It’s dark enough to switch on our... Read More + |
Apr 1, 2011
Random Acts of Poetry: Forgiveness
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Lent corresponds with my busiest weeks at work all year. After days of long hours answering phones, expediting everything from memos to conference calls, working through lunch to meet timelines... Read More + |
Apr 1, 2011
The Best Question
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I’m driving down a Michigan road on a winter afternoon. An old red barn crumbles in front of me, and I see a corn field stretching far into the distance. I’m out here to escape my husband and... Read More + |
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Add to the Beauty
During the past several days, I have been reflecting on various implications of a passage in Ezekiel 41 in which God reveals his plans for beautiful decorations of the temple in Jerusalem. I began... Read More +
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