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We’ve Been to the Mountain Top
It was a cold and rainy night in Memphis, Tennessee. As the sanitation workers were given no provision to get out of that weather, two Black workers had taken refuge in the bin at the back of their truck. Inadvertently,…
Read MoreOur Baptismal Vows
I vividly remember a critical moment in our confirmation class when I served a medium-sized United Methodist Church out in Ridgecrest. As in the Episcopal Church, confirmation is that ritual wherein one claims for oneself the baptismal vows they made,…
Read MoreLet Your Love-Light Shine
The story goes in Matthew that there was an anomaly in the sky, something ajar. More than a shooting star caught their attention. In a world beset by a great malaise, a wonder to behold. In that “bleak midwinter frosty…
Read MoreDo Not be Afraid
We live in a fearful age. “Precarious” describes the situation of many folk these days. Many of us think the country is headed in the wrong direction, with a sociopathological narcisist at the helm. Heroid incarnate. Destitution is everywhere. On…
Read MoreAll Changed into Blessing
What’s in a name? As parents about to be at the rather advanced age of 40 and 41 we felt especially blessed that a first child was on the way. We had been married 17 years when we found out…
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