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I’ve been thinking this week about brokenness, about being chosen and set apart–and being rejected and cast aside–and the value we place on those things in church settings, where those who are chosen lead in a faith centered on healing all who have been left out. More particularly, I have been talking […]
An early look at the book I’m writing in Wales on 9/11, religion, and culture:
“Terrible thing, to live in fear. . . . All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won’t have to be afraid all the time.”
Red (Morgan Freeman), The Shawshank Redemption
“I wish I wasn’t afraid all […]
I was environmental before environmental was cool. Seriously. I mean, I wasn’t at the first Earth Day, but I was into Reduce, Reuse, Recycle back in the days when you had to take your recyclables somewhere—and when a lot of things couldn’t be recycled.
Now it feels as though there’s been a sea-change in the way […]
