Uncovered (Meditation 65)
A band I have followed for decades, The Seventy Sevens, released an album in 1992 entitled Pray Naked. The Christian label they were signed to at the time marketed the…
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
The Voice (Meditation 64)
This week, people in my faith tradition and many others will enter into the season of Lent. For some, this is a time of giving up something; for others, Lent…
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Laboring in God’s Time (Meditation 63)
One of the most difficult parts about being a teacher is not seeing the fruit of one’s labors. Sure, during the course of the semester a student or two will…
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Our Fragile Light (Meditation 62)
This verse first became meaningful to me during a time of crisis when I was in college so many years ago the remembrance of pain seems sharper than many of…
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Herod’s Fear (Meditation 61)
Perhaps it is some combination of cognitive dissonance and the persistent conditioning that comes from years of mental abuse which keeps people from seeing the Herods in our world. Those…
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The Truth is More Real than the Facts (Meditation 60)
I have never really liked the phrase, “can’t see the forest for the trees.” Perhaps it is because it so often describes me. I am not only the guy who…
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A Story of Mercy (Meditation 59)
I don’t know how many times I have read this story and have thought of it, like so many people, as a story about ingratitude. But the other day, I…
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When Equations Don’t Add Up (Meditation 57)
A few weeks ago, I dropped my kids off at an amusement park, and while they were having fun, I tried to run a few errands. One of those involved…
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Defiance and Dialogue (Meditation 56)
When one of my grandsons, who are right now six and four years old, try to talk their mother into something they know she is not going to allow (climbing…
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God’s Vision of History (Meditation 54)
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain. Isaiah 53:10 I grow less and less comfortable with this verse as I get older. My body…
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