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Why’s it have to be so Heavy!?! (or, Towards a More Substantial Life)

Posted on September 16, 2017 by

A few weeks ago, my wife finally gave me the green light for a project I’ve been talking about for years. She gave me permission to build a brick oven. You can imagine my surprise, since I’m really not that … Continue reading →

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Good God

Posted on October 28, 2015 by

“Welcome home honey, how was your evening?” I asked my wife after she returned home from a work engagement recently. “It was good”, she replied. “And you?” “Oh, me” I cautiously ventured. “It was filled with existential angst as usual. … Continue reading →

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A Poem

Posted on June 4, 2015 by

There’s something intoxicating watching the sun set over a dozen amish farms wending my way along the asphalt gray somehow enchanted ribbon of road. Home.

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Embers and Ice

Posted on February 18, 2015 by

Today is Ash Wednesday. If the week was unfolding according to my plans, I would have preached a sermon on idolatry this past Sunday, using the text from Exodus that describes the fashioning of a golden calf. We would have … Continue reading →

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A donkey, not a warhorse

Posted on March 20, 2014 by

The scriptures I wrote this column on (in the March 17, 2014 issue of “Mennonite World Review”) are Zechariah 9:9 and Matthew 21:1-11. Zechariah offers good news for a people at war. Their deliverer has come! His feet have trod … Continue reading →

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Jesus, priest and king

Posted on March 5, 2014 by

The following is my second column, published in the March 3, 2014 issue of Mennonite World Review. It’s based on Psalm 110:1-4, Acts 2:22-24, 29-32, and Revelation 5:6-13 I remember the first time I experienced the dark underbelly of democratic process. … Continue reading →

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Evicting Death

Posted on November 14, 2013 by

Our church owns a house, and in that house there lives a truly awesome tenant whom we love and appreciate and want to keep happy. Yesterday this tenant came into the church office and broke some bad news. Over the weekend, … Continue reading →

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