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Home again?—for Proper 9B
Going home can be a kind of strained time travel. The past and present collide and people think we must always be the same. Always.
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Big City or Small Town
Where you live is not a sign that a size of community is better. Better to live in a way to make any community better.
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Home – can we really not go home again?
The challenge of going home is not just that things will be different. It’s that things will feel different.
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No Way Home
“Home” is one of the characters of the Nativity. But it certainly isn’t the way Mary and Joseph receive comfort.
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Breaking Our Fast
Of all the spiritual disciplines, I am quickly coming to the conclusion that this one is the most important: the discipline of breaking a fast. The foundation of the word discipline is in speaking of common order–and one’s relationship to order. When we speak of the church’s laws and principles, we refer to the “doctrine and discipline”…
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Why I’m Lousy at Vacation
This is what I discovered this summer. I really am lousy at vacation. I knew I was bad at it. I just didn’t know I was this bad. I don’t like the time away. I don’t like the extra burden before I go and after I return. I have trouble disconnecting my brain from my…