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In Praise of a Naked Christ

In a recent online exchange, I posted a photo of an icon that showed the Virgin Mary with a breast partially uncovered. While some of the discussion centered around the ever-weary topic of modesty, another …

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This is My Creed: Christ With Me

Driskill Mountain in Louisiana

On the Louisiana College campus, thereโ€™s a carillon at the top of the central historic building that plays awful bell arrangements of traditional evangelical hymns at certain times during the day. When I was a …

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Where They Once Hunted the Mammoth

The fat water snake didnโ€™t know what to make of us. It had slithered down toward the river, probably seeking the same swimming hole where we were spending the afternoon. Maybe it wanted to catch …

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The ‘Weird’ Power of a Single Word

The word "Weird", typewritten.

โ€œIf you look at his friend Jake, you would think that Jake is weird because of how he dresses, but Vershal โ€“ even though he looks normal โ€“ heโ€™s the one who is really weird.โ€ …

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They promised us a meteor shower

-For S. They had promised us a meteor shower, but all we saw were lightning bugs. Down the street, you could hear the lowing and occasional roars of livestock, the bulls and broncos that had …

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God is going to let the wrong people in

A set of old soft teal doors are shown close up with a slide lock.

I recently attended a church convention that included a question-and-answer session with a new bishop, and during the session, an attendee stood up and asked a question about who would be welcome in the pews …

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I am still writing my obituary

A person is shown from the shoulder down holding a pen over blank paper.

I write obituaries for a living. Well, only technically. Itโ€™s more honest to say that I edit obituaries as one of my job duties. In the free newspaper obituary business, thereโ€™s very little writing; itโ€™s …

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