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21 Things I do every Lent
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3 min read
Lent. The season of penitence and fasting. When the fish fry brings both fast and indulgence to Friday nights. Is there a more traditional season than this one? I do the same things every Lent. Not always on purpose.They just happen anyway. Here’s how it goes for me: 1) I freak out. Every year I…
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‘I can accept failure.’
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1 min read
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” -Michael Jordan Keep going! You’ve got this Lent thing! What’s your #LentFail?
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Living Waters
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6 min read
Growing up on Lake Huron, in the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan, the living water of the Great Lakes is persistently present. Like a slumbering beast you knew would awaken. Not to us by the shore, by the harbor where fishing boats and freighters would dock. But out a few miles from…
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‘If you fear failure’
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1 min read
An especially needed message for Lent.
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A culture war? You and I have our political-church landscape wrong. And we’re making it worse. Here’s how we fix it: we speak the truth.
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‘Scratch any cynic…’
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1 min read
We often talk about the fatalism of our character. Or who we’ve become because of our experience. But there’s a beauty in this thought: “Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.” -George Carlin That we might actually see what’s underneath. What’s still there. Idealism never left. It got turned toward something else.…
Make a New Normal
