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The Day Off
One of the questions I get most often is “When IS your day off?” I know that many of my colleagues take Mondays off, following the busy-ness of Sundays. I don’t. I spend Mondays doing a care home bible...
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The magic of rest.
One of the hardest lessons for an amateur magician to learn is how to effectively include rest and non-action into the working of magical effect. The tendency is to rush through the moves and sleights...
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Loitering with Intent
There is a term I hear regularly among college chaplains called “loitering with intent.” With so many students and so little time, it is a practice which most of us find remarkably difficult but...
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Searching for Sabbath
Last Sunday I went to the mall. Now-a-days we don’t really think anything of it; of course the malls will be open. However, I remember when this wasn’t the case. I also remember when this changed....
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Laying Fallow
I’m blessed to live in an agricultural community. We’re surrounded by farmers, just about everyone I know has a small vegetable garden, we could, if we chose, live off of what is grown within a few...
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And in the Seventh Week of Class, God Rested
Students at the university are just returning from their mid-semester reading week, which some spent studying- but most spent by throwing studiousness to the breeze, travelling, sleeping, partying, but...
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Retreat!
Last weekend I had the great opportunity to take part in a Lenten retreat. I have to admit, it was my first time taking such a spiritual get-away during Lent. It was just one day, a Saturday, but it...
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I told you never to call me here
“Are you answering work email?” I was. It was about 9:30, and my wife, son and I had just returned home from evening prayer. I had been out the door shortly after 5am to prepare for a 7:30 meeting, and...
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The Gospel according to Disney
My two-week-long grin is just starting to wear off. I grinned constantly for the week that we were at Disney World. I kept grinning well after our return. “How was your trip?” I have been asked...
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I love snow days!
I love snow days. I love being shuttered indoors because official sounding people over the media tell us “if you can, stay off the roads today.” I love the suspension of business-as-usual: the...
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