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"Camarado, I Give You my Hand"
Before I became a pastor, I worked for a couple of magazines. So I am used to thinking about Valentine's Day at Thanksgiving, shamrocks...
Jo Page
May 8, 20203 min read
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What Do You Do with a Bum in the Foyer?
The hell if I know. Let's start here: The Hindu prayer goes like this: “Lead me from the unreal to the real.” The story of Lazarus is a...
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Apr 9, 20203 min read
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"And the Stillness the Dancing" (TS Eliot)
Those old-timey, old fart pastors! An aged parishioner told me that one time when he was a kid, he and a young friend ditched church to...
Jo Page
Apr 3, 20205 min read
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A Bag of Onions
During our Zoom meeting this morning, a colleague the told story of how one of her parishioners was out of onions. She said her husband...
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Mar 26, 20203 min read
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"The Daughters of Lions are Lions, too"
Elizabeth Warren ended her campaign just a couple of days before International Women's Day--ironically also the first day of Daylight...
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Mar 8, 20203 min read
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Anti-Choice ≠ Pro-Life
Just a few days' shy of the end of Black History Month, a four-color poster from Life Dynamics Incorporated came across my desk at...
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Feb 29, 20203 min read
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Trumping Love
Confession: I actually somewhat agreed with an observation made by President Trump the other day. That was a first. You will recall that...
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Feb 18, 20203 min read
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Easy Wind. And Downy Flake
"The only other sound's the sweep/Of easy wind and downy flake." Maybe you don't recognize the quote. But you probably know this part:...
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Jan 15, 20203 min read
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A Child Named Wonderful
A Christmas story for people who are all grown up: The Rev. Stephen Bolden peeled off his gloves and climbed back into his car, cranking...
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Dec 28, 20199 min read
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I Don't Know Why I Love You Like I Do
And the angel Gabriel came to Mary and said, ‘Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you.’ 29But she was much perplexed by his words...
Jo Page
Dec 18, 20195 min read
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Lift Up Your Hearts!
Oh, no! It’s that time of year when we have to be grateful again! Last year a reporter from a local news outlet called the church I was...
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Nov 25, 20193 min read
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In the Night. In the Dark.
The mums are wilted, Halloween is past and we have set back the clocks. Don't even try to tell me you've already adjusted to the...
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Nov 7, 20193 min read
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The Saints Come Marching
The larger-than-life French writer, Francois Rabalais, is reported to have said on his deathbed, “I am going to see a great Perhaps. Draw...
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Oct 31, 20193 min read
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Real Crossings, Real Lynchings
After visiting Barcelona two summers ago, I travelled up the coastal road into France where, quite by accident, I happened to cross the...
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Oct 28, 20194 min read
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Bad Air
In 2013, the German broadcasting network, Deutsche Welle, called Malala Yousefzai "the most famous teen-ager in the world" for her...
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Sep 30, 20193 min read
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Living the Unlived Life?
Writer Adam Phillips wrote Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life in order to explain why the lives we wished to have, but don’t--and...
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Sep 23, 20193 min read
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Fear and Sanctuary
Trust me, I don't want to start this column by quoting Martin Luther because then you will surely stop reading. But--please don't. "What...
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Sep 4, 20193 min read
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Danish Martyr, Kai Munk, Speaks for Today
Jesus told them this story: “The farm of a certain rich man produced a terrific crop. The man talked to himself: ‘What can I do? My barn...
Jo Page
Aug 7, 20196 min read
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How to Go Forward After the Fourth
I had a Fourth of July to make a patriotic soul happy. And I was. I packed us a picnic lunch and we made an early bee-line for Saratoga...
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Jul 31, 20193 min read
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Summer Reading...Wait, What?
Hmmm. I'm not much of a summer-books-beach-reader. I didn't read Fifty Shades of Gray on a camp chair, feet in the sand, an Arnold Palmer...
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Jul 9, 20192 min read
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