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lenten journal: right
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lenten journal: finding my place
A good twenty years ago, I was sitting in my car at a traffic signal on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, waiting for the light to change so I could cross the bridge over the rail yard and back to our home in Charlestown. I looked up to see a billboard that read, Come see the…
lenten journal: life together
I was a history major in college. I love the stories. And the history department at Baylor had some great story tellers. Robert Reid told of the rise and fall of the Greeks and Romans, Pat Ward appropriately skeptical insight on American foreign policy, and Wallace Daniel knew both Russian folktales as well as the…
lenten journal: finders keepers
The lectionary passage this week is the parable of the prodigal son, but I’m going to wait a week on that because I was captured by the two stories that precede it in Luke’s gospel. _______________________ Before Jesus began telling parables about banquets, Luke told us he was at the home of one of the…
lenten journal: get here
I went walking around the Green today three different times for no other reason than I needed to get out of the house. The first time, Ginger and I walked down to the Marketplace to buy some bread, but my second trip was going nowhere in particular other than out. I came home to find…


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