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The Peace of God Be With You
Psalm 4 Answer me when I call to you,O my righteous God.Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.How long will you people turn my glory into shame?How long will you love...
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Preaching Festival Recap #1: The Sermon
Last night, the Academy of Young Preachers wrapped up a 3-day preaching festival in downtown Atlanta. This year I had the great pleasure of attending for the first time. I met a ton of people and made...
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To Emmaus and Beyond
A reading from Luke 24:13-24 Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had...
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The Other Side of Poverty
In an “unpackingpocalypse” fit of nostalgia while I was putting my books back into my bookcase in my new home, I started to read my Baja journal – the journal I use on mission trips to Baja, Mexico. I...
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The Chaplain Who Couldn’t Find God
Once there was a chaplain who worked at a hospital. During a particularly overwhelming week, the chaplain – whose job it is to help patients and families find the sacred in their suffering –...
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Reflections on Hope
“What we can glimpse of the divine is exactly always enough and never enough” – Kathleen Norris Glimpses of the divine come at welcome times for me. Just when I need to see evidence of some good,...
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Treeological Reflection
A big part of what my peers at work and I do as chaplain residents is theological reflection. It’s a process of free association meant to help guide our pastoral practice. We make a list of all...
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Traumaverssaries
I texted my CPE supervisor yesterday to ask if minds and bodies remember vicarious traumas even after a year. This was the only explanation I had for why yesterday was such a sad, weepy day after I’d...
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Dear Christopher
Dear Christopher, The last time I talked to you, we hugged and said goodbye to Jr. and Sr. High school spent in each other’s orbits – blessing one another on our journeys as we reconciled differences...
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Gentle Whispers
1 Kings 19:11b-12 “After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there was...
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Reflections on Hope
“What we can glimpse of the divine is exactly always enough and never enough” – Kathleen Norris Glimpses of the divine come at welcome times for me. Just when I need to see evidence of some good,...
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Our mediation from tonight’s Blue Christmas service; based on Psalm 42. “My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, ‘where is your God?’” These words from Psalm 42...
View ArticleI Will Not Be Shaken: Reflection on Acts 2:25
This is my contribution to the Scott Boulevard Baptist Church twice weekly mailer, SBBC Connection that my pastor and I devised to keep our congregation connected to us, to each other and to God. … “I...
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