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Does This Year Make Me Look Self-Righteous?
Like so many of you, my heart hurts. I’m weary from grief. I’m worn out with change. My heart weeps for everyone facing prolonged separations from dear ones or who buried family without the comfort of a funeral. And for all who celebrated major life passages with modified or delayed celebrations. The thought of a …[ read more ]
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How to Survive a Pharisee Apocalypse
Do you know how to survive a zombie apocalypse? Within the church, we’re at much higher risk for a more dangerous contagion. Let me start with a little story. Once, I worked with a mother who requested help. She’s on her own with no extended family and was struggling to know how best to manage …[ read more ]
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They Burned Mercy Brown’s Heart
In Exeter, Rhode Island, January 1892, Mercy Brown was buried. In March of 1892, her surviving loved ones dug her up, cut out her heart, burned it on a stone, mixed the ashes with water, and gave it to her brother to drink. Rest in peace? Not so much. Mercy’s family had been dying of …[ read more ]
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How To Shipwreck Your Faith
Have you ever been in the Doldrums? According to Wikipedia, the doldrums “also called the “equatorial calms”, are the calms and light baffling winds at the intertropical convergence zone. The zone is a band, encircling the Earth just north of the equator, where the winds from the northern and southern hemispheres come together.” “The Doldrums—the …[ read more ]