Daily Office
This short commute to my daily office,like winning some holy lottery: held to lose my self to the grand humility of rock and lichen,tangled sea kelp, shor...
Category: Atonement
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Remembrance Day isn’t easy
Remembrance Day always brings conflicting thoughts. It’s not an easy day. Not easy because I will not be ungrateful for the sacrifices made in war, but I&...
Forsaken Friday, Easter, and why I’m still a Christian
I became a Christian because early in life I was given the language: sin, debt, fear, hell, wrath—grace, love, repentance, atonement, heaven…these were the econ...
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1000 Grow Mercy dispatches
When a blog reaches 1000 posts, it’s time to take stock. Grow Mercy was, is, an experiment. In a way it began through the power of a sentence, in the context of...