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Two Weeks of Travel: Part III, Staunton and Road Trip!
Hanging out in Staunton with Babylon 5, the old-world church yard, and driving back cross country…
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Two Weeks of Travel: Part II, Epic Train Disaster
What happens when all order breaks down in a train trip, and when you get stuck on a mountain in West Virginia with a bunch of very upset people…
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Two weeks of travel: Part I, Minneapolis and Co
These past couple of weeks, I’ve been traveling in my various “home base” locations. They have both been magnificent trips: times to reconnect with people, times to sit and reflect, times to explore, and times to turn into a science fiction vegetable, and times to get a handle on my life.
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Sermon from 8/17: Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Canaanite Woman
This story in our gospel lesson has always bothered me. Jesus really isn’t the nice guy in this story. In fact, he’s kind of a jerk in his story. It’s really out of character and confusing.
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Sermon from 8/3: The Five Loaves and Two Fish
Here is the sermon I preached at The Clare this morning on the feeding of the five thousand found in Matthew. You can get the readings here.
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One of my favorite made-up words in the English Language is the word hangry.
I love this word because it is a simple smushing of two words together, which–when combined–perfectly describe a state of being that is both hungry and angry, and yet a phenomenon all of its own.
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Sermon from 7/13: Isaiah and the Parable of the Sower
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty…
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I like the summer rains.
In which Maggie muses about memories of playing in the rain when she was a kid.
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Sermon from 7/6
“According to Zechariah, this is where God chooses to be. God chooses to reside in the place that the ancient Israelites could not understand, the place where humility and triumph meet—a place they could never have expected.”
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Marker Art #68: “Cloaked Thoughtful”
Cloaked thoughtful dreaming of other things spilling out ideas like fabric running over rocks like rivers Just thinking here, not anything particularly special. Sitting here thinking about stuff.
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Thoughts on Palm Sunday
This Sunday was Palm Sunday, and in liturgical church traditions, it’s one of the weirder ones. It’s heavy with emotion, full of the ups and downs of a nonsensical, wild faith.
We start outside the church building, singing an ancient hymn and waving branches around like our ancient stories tell us the people of Jerusalem did. The whole congregation stood out in a city park–this morning being the first warm morning in God knows how long, here in Chicago. The air was humid and smelled like rain, but the wind was hot to us and dusty. (more…)
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Marker Art #67: Butterfly
Finally a new image! It’s been forever… lots of work on the Academic front often meant little drawing and coloring. But I have returned, finally scanning up some images from way back in December! This one is called “Butterfly”. A simple doodle done while in class, sitting around…waiting, waiting, waiting… Read more…
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Marker Art #66: “Destinations”
It’s been a long time, I know! But I’ve finally produced some new marker art. For some reason, the colors on this scan are disappointing me. I broke some of my rules and used professional markers (Prismacolors for her skin and Shinhan for greys and some of the pinks and Read more…
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Sermon from 12/22
These last few days before Christmas are marked by a sort of Holiday Cheer buzz that has worked itself up over the entire month of December into an almost shrill frequency, like a teakettle full of glitter.
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Update on my Painter Exploration…
This is coming along nicely, I think! It’s been so long since I’ve worked in this fashion, but I am really enjoying it! I feel like I’m at a sort of impasse with it, though…not quite sure where to go next, but realizing that a lot of it could Read more…
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Marker Art #65: Blessed
This lady developed slowly after a long day thinking about the words I used to hear from folks at the Night Ministry bus. People always referred to themselves as “Blessed”–every day, just because they woke up that morning, or because they received food from us, or because they heard from Read more…
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A great many thanks to everyone this summer!
The summer is now almost, almost over. It’s September 25th, so it probably sounds to most folks like the summer has been over for a long time. But–UChicago starts late, and so September tends to be the month that we all get “off.” Which, I apologize for, is the reason Read more…
2013
CPE Journal #10
This image is the final image in my CPE Journal Series–completed for my wonderful Aunt and Uncle Trifoso! It resembles a steampunk airship…mostly because I felt like trying to draw one. I was getting a little fantastical towards the end of the summer.
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CPE Journal Week 9
In this one I had a lot of the elements of my life this summer: viaducts, spray-painted trains–tagged things and metro lines. The leaves on a summer tree, and quiet, lonely faces everywhere I looked. There’s a lot of thought in this one.
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CPE Journal Week 8
This image is from Week 8, and was purchased by the wonderful long time friends of mine, Janelle and Peter. The only criteria was “Must contain trains.” 🙂 Done.