This month, my congregation’s worship theme is Sacrifice — a hard one to lean into even as the world seems to be asking all of us to wrestle with it. To understand sacrifice today, in the third decade of the 21st century, let us begin not on the altars of ancient stories where living beings […]
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As I write this, the snow is swirling outside my window so fully I can’t see the pine trees just 20 feet away. It brings to mind an extraordinary and terrifying passage in a favorite novel, Driftless, by David Rhodes. The scene takes place in the winter on a Wisconsin farm, where Graham and Cora […]
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Here, Here, where already you have left behind by choice or by force what you knew what you might have cherished what you maybe took for granted. Here, where not yet do you know where you’re headed what it will take what it will give how it will change you. Here, on the threshold you […]
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