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The Leadership of Hazel
I was watching Watership Down, the animated film last week in mourning for my two bunnies – Moonbun, whom I had to give up after fostering for a semester, and Muffin, who passed away in Australia. It’s...
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Yesterday, some good friends of mine lost their grandfather. Although we often fear death as mighty and dreadful, it cannot truly kill us. As John Donne reminds us in Holy Sonnet X: “One short sleep...
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Out of these Woods do not Desire
The following is a true report of the happenings of 24th June 2010 in Central Park, Rochester, Minnesota, in my interactions with various personages of the Words Players, a very young but accomplished...
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Bare Ruined Choirs
Bare ruined choirs, where once the sweet birds sang… –William Shakespeare There is something uniquely melancholy about a ruined church, I always think. Ruined castles are sometimes sad, too, especially...
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Ecclesiastes to Woody Allen
“Vanity of vanities–all is vanity!” cries Qoheleth (or “the preacher”) in what is perhaps the most mysterious and eerily modern book in the Old Testament canon, Ecclesiastes. Whatever else one makes...
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He is Risen!
“Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead,” the Misfit continued, “and he shouldn’t have done it. He thrown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it’s nothing for you to do now...
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Happy Birthday to Me!!!! I’m Aging With the Help of Jesus!
Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to me! Oh, how I look forward to growing just another year older today… and hopefully a little wiser also. However, age is an interesting conundrum. As we age,...
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The Doubt
The day I buried my grandma was hot and humid, like almost every day in Singapore, and the funeral home prepared large golf umbrellas for all the mourners to beat off the heat. We each got one as we...
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The God of Friday
Today’s reading is Luke 23:26-49 (ESV): The Crucifixion 26 And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind...
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Loving the Dying Christ
How often have I found myself in the place of the disciples in today’s Gospel reading, where they do not understand Jesus when He foretells His death for the third time: “He will be handed over to the...
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