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  • advent journal: answer this question

    advent journal: answer this question

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham December 10, 2014

    As I was driving to and from work today I heard interviews on NPR related to what is being called “The Torture Report,” or the “Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program,” which looked at the secret prisons the CIA ran around the world after September 11,…

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  • advent journal: numbering the days . . .

    advent journal: numbering the days . . .

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham December 9, 2014December 9, 2014

    It was the summer of 1984, as I remember it. I was twenty-seven, living in Dallas, Texas and working as a chaplain at Baylor Medical Center. My father was pastoring at Westbury Baptist Church in Houston. The ties between us were strained a bit, in large part because I was working hard to figure out…

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  • advent journal: we did good

    advent journal: we did good

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham December 8, 2014

    I was driving to work early this morning, as is my custom more days than not, and took my usual exit off of I-40 at Fayetteville Road. The ramp bends up and over the freeway to get to the mall and there’s a traffic signal just before the bridge. As I came up the hill…

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  • advent journal: it’s a privilege

    advent journal: it’s a privilege

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham December 7, 2014

    On this second Sunday of the Advent season, I read the Hebrew scripture passage as if I were the prophet, which I have done for over twenty years in various congregations, and which has been preceded almost all of those years by my singing the chorus of “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord” from…

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  • advent journal: songs to sing together

    advent journal: songs to sing together

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham December 6, 2014

    The protests have been in my mind all day. Here are a few of the songs that have been the soundtrack in my mind. As we walk this Advent road, these are good tunes for the journey. The first is a John Fogerty song covered by Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy called “Wrote a Song…

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  • advent journal: peace, officers

    advent journal: peace, officers

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham December 5, 2014December 6, 2014

    As soon as work was over this evening, I raced across Durham to meet Ginger at the Armory for the Durham Symphony Holiday Concert. Downtown was full of activity: something at the Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC), a crowd around the downtown Christmas tree, and the usual folks finding their way to one of our…

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  • advent journal: a day late
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    advent journal: a day late

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham December 5, 2014December 5, 2014

    Somewhere in the night I woke to remember I had not written. The day was full. Ginger and Rachel were driving back from the funerals in Birmingham, I cooked lunch for our UCC clergy group (as I do the first Thursday of every month), other food to deliver, and we had our regular Thursday Night…

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  • advent journal: us.

    advent journal: us.

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham December 3, 2014December 5, 2014

    I don’t know who said it, or where I first heard it, but for years I have remembered the First Rule of Theology: there is a God and it’s not me. I find comfort in that sentence. Being God looks like an incredibly difficult job. There’s something about the Incarnation that flips that statement over,…

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  • advent journal: the small fire of winter stars
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    advent journal: the small fire of winter stars

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham December 2, 2014December 5, 2014

    Mark Strand died this week. He was a poet, even a former U. S. Poet Laureate. In the middle of the violence that makes up our world, it feels worthwhile to say thanks for the life and words of a poet who held a sense of appropriate insignificance with grace; therefore I offer two of…

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  • advent journal: the big picture

    advent journal: the big picture

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham December 1, 2014

    I have been ruminating much of the day on a contrast presented to me by The Writer’s Almanac this morning. Along with the daily poem, they marked two anniversaries. In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white passenger. In 1913, Henry Ford introduced the…

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