Jenny McClung shared this on Facebook and it describes our week. NPR drones in the background. Every ten minutes I check my phone. As though the race will be decided. This election has real consequences. So it is understandable that we are worried. In John 6 the crowd decides to make Jesus King. This is […]

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Meg and I will be Quarantine Doctors this Halloween. With zero training or expertise our trusted cure will be candy vaccinations. The “needle” is actually a pvc pipe through which we can drop candy into buckets. It is an appropriate costume for our time. Not only because of Covid, but we live in an era […]

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“Here is a Torah teacher who says in his own name what the Torah says in God’s name… I am troubled not so much by the message, though I might take exception to this or that, as I am by the messenger.” — Jacob Neusnar, Jewish Rabbi and Scholar “I am the good shepherd” (John […]

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We were the first to Zoom into Darcy’s church class. I am an admin for the church account, so we got the meeting started. I left Darcy at the computer to text her teachers — one had an emergency, another was racing home (safely using voice to text… so I only partially understood the messages!). […]

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The Dread of the ninth. Hope dwindling with each out. I stood high in the upper deck of the K with my sister. A season ticket holder, she gave me the ticket. Then Gordon’s swing. The crack of the bat. The ball blistered and sailing. We screamed and cheered. Dread sailed with the ball, Hope […]

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