Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Holocaust Survivor Helen Paktor: "I Wanted to Live."

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Twenty Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Kristallnacht (1938) This was a weekend of broken glass. On Friday, one of my friends made us a wo...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Keeping Persecution in Perspective

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Kristallnacht (1938) This morning's groggy scan of the Face-space feed revealed that the annual "Keep-My-Christ-in-Your-Christm...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear

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I was struck this week by two passages we read in my Education for Ministry seminar, both quotes of Lloyd Steffen , Chaplain at Lehigh Univ...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Requiescat in Pace: John Maxtone-Graham

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JOHN MAXTONE-GRAHAM LECTURES ABOARD QM2 IN HIS TRADEMARK KILT (MY PHOTO, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED) I was saddened to learn yesterday of the p...
Friday, June 19, 2015

Charleston

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Thus says the Lord: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she ref...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Too Many Flags to Fit

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 “A boy like that will kill your brother Forget that boy, and find another One of your own kind, stick with your own kind” - WEST SIDE ST...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Dear Eighteen-Year-Old-Me

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This was part of a suggested exercise in response to a piece called " Letter to My 18-Year-Old Self " by Brita James , publis...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

More Than a Handsome Face: Model/Singer Kerry Degman Draws Eyes to Military Suicide Prevention

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It is not every day that someone you once admired (or envied) on a purely aesthetic level fleshes out to be a real person who not only resp...