• This thing has feathers. (pinned post)

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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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  • I disagree with myself ALL THE TIME.

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    In grad school, I attended an inter-religious consortium of seminaries and institutes. One term while taking a class over at the Unitarian Universalist seminary, I recall telling a UU classmate that I am a “Trinitarian Universalist.” That might well be a fancy way to say “Episcopalian,” although I doubt it. Our shared beliefs don’t usually

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  • Squirrels!

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    Two poems about those adorable pests So, I have a hole in my roof. My 101-year-old Detroit home has one of those very typical additions, a kitchen nook with a room above it. On the second floor, that creates a room off the bedroom I use as my office. It’s a nice, sunny room where

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  • Even the Dogs Get Crumbs

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    The Gospel lection for this Sunday (September 8, 2024, in the Episcopal edition of the Revised Common Lectionary, Year B, Proper 18) is Mark 7:24-27. It includes two pericopes, including one of the Gospel accounts of the story of a Gentile woman whose child is ill: Jesus set out and went away to the region

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  • In the Beginning Was the Word

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    And God said, “Letthere be light!”And there was light, or would have been, had God been crafting a cosmos intelligible to the Bronze Age mind, or mine. Scientists—specifically, astrophysicists—tell us that we can detect light from the Big Bang, the background microwave radiation all around us. We can see into the past via light that

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  • When Theologians Have Pet Peeves in Holy Week

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    Good Friday, 2024 Pet peeves? Oh, I have plenty. But I won’t get into all my theological quibbles, or my personal tastes and distastes. I’ve actually overstated things in the title. It’s not click-bait; I know you’re the only person seeing this, dear reader. (Thank you!) Really, I want to comment on a few things

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