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A Beauty Crowned with Thorns

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. It was hands-down the most memorable Easter gift I have ever received. One year, when my two brothers and I were in grade school, Mom didn’t settle for colored eggs and chocolate bunnies.  Just for fun she bought each of us a live baby chick. Older brother Scott named his Khruschev, the Soviet dictator… Read more »

4:00 pm Today

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Jerks definitely make the world a more interesting place. Gary Larson likewise made the world far more interesting during the 15 years that his Far Side cartoons ran in syndication in more than 1,900 newspapers. Larson is now 72 years old and retired from the craft that made him globally famous.  He put down… Read more »

That Wild and Crazy Guy

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Unfortunately, I’ve been afflicted with laryngitis for several days, so I wasn’t able to record this podcast.    That Wild and Crazy Guy According to the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, what happened when Jesus led his band of apprentices to “the other side” of the Sea of Galilee? The disciples were probably not surprised that Jesus was immediately confronted by a… Read more »