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What can one say fresh about a scripture such as Psalm 23, which has become so familiar as to be cliché, almost banal, particularly since it’s the go-to scripture for funerals for someone the pastor doesn’t know? The ideas behind the psalm of trust, rest,...
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Getting a nasty cold like the one that attacked our household last week can shake a person’s faith in humans being made in the image of God. Believe me, I just can’t imagine God coughing, hacking, sneezing and wheezing the way my husband and I have done in...
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Old age is not for sissies, as my late mother always said. Having recently observed my 60th birthday, each aching joint and “senior moment” convince me she was right. Four decades of trotting the globe, badgering bureaucrats, chasing disasters and banging...
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Strange and wondrous, how Mother Nature runs riot on our end of Prairie Creek. A channel cut through gumbo clay That crumbles and tumbles day by day Making crevice deep and wide For meager muddy stream. Yet still a sluice of moisture nurtures Nature in her springtime...
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About 100 miles southwest of where I live sits the town of West, Texas. Until the evening of April 17, West was known for its vibrant Czech heritage, which includes an annual folk festival with plenty of mouth-watering stuffed rolls called kolaches. Now as I write on...
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Each morning, barring inclement weather, Sheena the Wonder Dog takes me on our morning “walkies.” Our street abuts Prairie Creek, so we start out walking along the grassy strip of park that our family calls the Greenway, like in the “Lord of the...
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Fellow blogger Ian Lynch and I agreed this week: The latest Darkwood Brew series “Evolving Science/Evolving Faith” has taught us so much about scientific achievements that we feel as though our heads are about to explode. Preparing to write this...
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By Cynthia Astle One thing about being behind in your work: sometimes you get an unexpected blessing from the delay. This week’s blessing came in the March 14 news that scientists at the European supercollider CERN have confirmed the existence of the Higgs...
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At some point in Rev. Eric Elnes’ recent conversation with Rev. Michael Dowd about religious naturalism, my hyperactive brain flashed on a scene from one of my favorite British mystery series, “Inspector Lewis.” Lewis (sitting outside a pub gazing at...
