It comes down to the cupcakes

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I recently had the pleasure of spending the evening with my former church camp counselor from when I was 14. She and her husband are CO-SENIOR pastors of a church in city not… Read More

Supercalafragalistic

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“There are moments,” she said, “where I wish for Mary Poppins to perch on my roof and dole out things by the spoonful. ‘Just a spoonful of sorrow today.’ she’d say, because lately,… Read More

Addiction

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Hey, he says, softly over the white noise. Looking up, I blink back anger and shame, and I feel like a child caught with one too many cookies, and the nagging ache in… Read More

Saving the old man with the orange cowboy hat and the kids in the matching youth group shirts

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If you grew up in a Baptist church in the south you had an older man who gave out candy to the kids on Sunday morning, dressed up like a clown or with… Read More

The M word

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I am moving to Africa and getting married. Its intense. I came home after a crazy month of twists, turns, anxiety, peace, spiritual enlightenment and harsh reality of global medicine with a secret… Read More

For Whom the Dove Mourns

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From waking breath I hurry, gathering my flock We yell and run about, scattering across the house And as we run toward the car, calling out “Watch Out” I hear her cry somewhere… Read More

Climb the Cross of the Moment

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“We would rather die in dread / Than climb the cross of the moment / And let our illusions die.” W. H. Auden

The Tell Tell Diamond in the Rough

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To be fully alive is excruciatingly painful. To live fully is to dig deep and fully understand who you are and who you think you should be and the reasons for both. It is the willingness to unmask… Read More

Awakening (and not so unlike Chopin’s)…

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Doctors tend to have tunnel vision ESPECIALLY in training. I may or may not have mostly dropped off the theological map the last three years, really I have been out for 7 if… Read More

The Runner

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So here’s the thing. I hate running. I always have, and any time I’ve thought about running, I have horrible flashbacks to high school, insecurity at it’s peak, huffing and puffing through shin… Read More

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