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Tapestries and Quilts
My father was an autodidact, a learned man with little formal education beyond high school. He was a voracious reader of eclectic materials, usually books with God and spirituality at their center of...
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Suffering into Truth
Jeanne got on the Amtrak early one Sunday morning not long ago, beginning two weeks of work-related travel. Bummed out, I decided to head south for church an hour and a half early in order to spend...
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Doubt and Dedication
“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty” Anne Lamott Michel de Montaigne’s world was filled with religious fervor and piety. It was also filled with hatred and violence....
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Fearless Passivity
Wednesday night prayer meeting—yet another opportunity to go to church. As a creative youngster, I usually was able to find something in every foray to church to pique my interest, however briefly. I...
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Celebrating Life
There’s nothing more pitiful than a grown man feeling sorry for himself. But that’s where I found myself not long ago while on sabbatical. My first conscious thought upon awakening was of the email I...
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The Designer God Project
Voltaire once said that if God did not exist, we would have to invent him. In truth, we invent God all the time, often with seeming disregard as to whether the God we have invented actually exists or...
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Jesus, Moe, and Curly
One of my unexpected reading delights in the past few years has been discovering the writings of Anne Lamott. In her struggles with faith, she is equally intense in both her relentless pursuit of the...
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What I Would Love to Find
In Bird by Bird, the best book on writing that I have read, Anne Lamott tells the writing wannabe to “write what you would love to find.” That’s great advice—but of course that means the prospective...
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One Heart and Soul
It’s getting close to the end of the semester (about five weeks to go), which means that final papers will be coming in over the next month. As the due date gets closer, I will have any number of...
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We Are More Than We Are
Although it often caused trouble and brought me grief during my primary and secondary education years, I have never tried very hard to hide my serious geekiness. Accordingly, I start today’s blog post...
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