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Living Authentically Is Hard… And Worth It
Looking at a friend’s Facebook post today, after a day of doing couples therapy, then listening to a squabble about theology in the Catholic church on the radio, I am struck by how hard it is to live authentically. I realize that as a therapist, and as Christian, that is my goal for people, but it’s not…
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On Learning From Psychopaths
This morning, in Colorado, a man opened fire on a crowd of people after putting a gas canister in the theater. I, and probably everyone in the legitimate media (“professional” media?) will want to make something out of it. We will try to learn a lesson from it, make meaning of it, as human beings…
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For My Daughter on Independence Day
Last night, just before I went to bed, my daughter asked me if I could write her an article on Independence Day. When I asked her why, she said, “Because I have to read an article on Independence Day”. I’m not surewhoshe has to read it for, it being summer and all, but I thought…
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The Budget and Us
I’m sitting in a restaurant in Chicopee, MA as I write this. For those of you that don‘t know Chicopee, it’s an old mill town – a factory town built up near a river everywhere where mills used the river to power them. When I was young, this whole area had factories everywhere that kept…
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Your C Score — for Caroll (and Todd, who “gets” it)
My friend Caroll Cyr was commissioned as a Christian Educator in our denomination today and during the service she was questioned about the relevance of the Bible in today’s world. She replied that “ of course” the Bible was relevant, and then she said that she was going to be going to a meeting about…
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“Miracles” and Miracles – AbilityPlus
My friends Sue Tatem and David Hauser are involved with a program called AbilityPlus, Inc, and I am so impressed with it that I wanted to tell you about it. From my understanding of theology, it does two types of work: “Miracles” and Miracles. The first type of miracle, (“miracle” in quotes) is some thing…
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The Untried Solution: Regionalizing Connecticut Schools and more
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” — George Bernard Shaw, famously quoted by Robert F. Kennedy George Harris, the pastor of South Church, and I were talking today as we walked in Hartford’s Walk Against Hunger and we got to talking about…
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What’s Wrong With The Truth?
It’s one of those screaming days in my head. I’m reading the Huffington Post online today and the news seems to indicate that Ann Romney “Loves the fact that there are single, working mothers”. She doesn’t. What she said, if you read it or listen to the clip is: “I love all kinds of people.…
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Women’s Work Is: a) Never Done b) Never Paid For c) All of the Above d) None of the Above
A million years ago, when I was a pastor in a small town in upstate New York, my parishioners and I were sitting on my porch discussing feminist analysis of scripture when a woman said, “I don’t like those feminists. I don’t believe in what they stand for”. I was shocked, but after I regrouped,…
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Re: Travon — We’re Ready
I’m a non-professional blogger and my corner of the blogosphere is growing but I think is usually seen by, I assume, my group of Friends from Facebook. My strength as a writer has grown over the past two-plus years, and I have come to believe that my opinion matters as much as the next person’s.…
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