Holy Week may not be the best context for a reflection about the goodness and beauty of intact community structures.  This is the week we recall the undoing of the life of Jesus, his walk through a switchback from acclaim of hosannas and a vilification that led to his execution by the state.  Like many a politician, he is praised one moment by a crowd, only to be vilified the next by a crowd. Continue Reading

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The other morning I woke up for the first time from a dream in which I’d been praying.  I don’t recall praying IN a dream before, though of course I don’t remember enough to know.  Have you? Continue Reading

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“Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage” (Ps. 84:5).

That verse became my mantra at 20, when I was home from college for Christmas, and learned that our Lutheran pastor would be leaving for another congregation (which would be his last before he left the ministry).  Continue Reading