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Here Comes the Amockalypse
Wednesday December 30, 2009
Needless to say, it’s a safe bet that Sony Pictures didn’t intend its Friday release of 2012 several weeks back to coincide with that Sunday’s readings in the Episcopal lectionary. But as the Spirit sometimes moves in ways that aren’t so mysterious, I had to laugh at the fact that the cyclical readings that opening weekend....
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Those Who Know Their Need
Tuesday December 29, 2009
When I knit at bedtime, if I’m on a simple stretch of garter or stockinette that doesn’t require much attention, I like to see the stitches as prayer beads that pass through my fingers. With each row of stitches, I say to myself a favorite line from....
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Love and Hate and Lists
Monday December 28, 2009
My favorite display of the paradoxical inner life of the music critic comes from Anthony Barr-Jeffrey, who did a series of funny and insightful blog posts for the now-defunct CCM Magazine several years ago. In one, he wrote, “I have an unusually big....
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Miracle on Bladensburg Road
Friday December 25, 2009
It was a cold Tuesday before Christmas, around seven o’clock at night, and I was sitting in the McDonald’s in Colmar Manor, Maryland, wondering exactly how it had come to this. I’d come home late from work; my festive dinner out with my Bible study girlfriends Linda and Halima had been....
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The Crack in Everything
Thursday December 24, 2009
Anxiety has found me again. It started as mild butterflies, as though I had an upcoming final exam or performance. I didn’t. Or did I? Isn’t living a performance? Showing up—with integrity and focus—can feel like performance, not in the sense of....
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