• Excuses & Apologies

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    If this is pinned, it’s got new information Hi there! I haven’t given up blogging the lectionary, I’ve just fallen behind. Overwhelm is real and threatening to morph into depression. I will still write the missing post later this week. Be well, –Elaine

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  • Hope has teeth.

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    Yeah, yeah, I misquoted Dickinson. (She wrote, “Hope is the thing with feathers,” not “Hope’s the thing…”) But this is a meme I made a while back that isn’t really a meme because it’s not meming, but it does seem, unfortunately, to be evergreen: Feel free to use it if you like, though.

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  • A story of Detroit as told by its street maps.

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     Satellite view of Detroit and Windsor, showing Lake Erie (bottom) and Lake St. Clair Detroit’s street map has often been described as a palimpsest. I’ve called it the broken hub of a wheel dumped beside the river (which isn’t really a river; it’s a strait), but my metaphor actually leaves out most of the streets.…

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  • The Odd One Out

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    But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails…

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