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As posted by yours truly at RevGalBlogPals:In a minor domestic crisis, my food processor, or more precisely the part you use for almost everything for which I use a food processor, picked the eve of the festive season of the...

I wrote on Tuesday: "So that's three sermons, two bulletins, a newsletter piece (plus other items) and an e-mail reflection."Sermon 1 -- Reign of Christ (this Sunday)Sermon 2 -- Thanksgiving Eve (next Wednesday)Sermon 3 -- Advent 1 (next Sunday)Bulletin 1...

In late-breaking election news, Light Princess told me this morning, "I'm running for class president." She'll give a speech this morning, to be followed by the vote. I must admit, this took me by surprise. LP has never expressed interest...

I am unready.In an attempt at having time off with my visiting sons next week, and because my admin also wants to take the week off, life is busy this week. We will attempt two bulletins and a December newsletter...

I'm thinking about how we understand God, where we see God in the things that happen around us, what we expect God to do and where we expect God to be. We read words like these:And he has put all...

Book # 52: Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw. I shared some thoughts about this one over at RevGalBlogPals, where it was the October discussion book. I guess I'm not as certain that no good can come...

( A sermon for Proper 28 A November 16, 2008 Matthew 25:14-30)Every now and then, Molly gets it into her head to dig a hole in the backyard. I’ve seen her do it to get a cooler place to lie...

Big Bottle of Dasuquin: $60.00Big Bottle of Metacam: $65.00Lots of Tramadol: $50.00Molly putting some weight on her left front leg: PricelessI'm trying not to get overly excited, to remain realistic. But if she can use that leg, it gives us...

Today I roved to another part of Vacationland, to a charming harbor town that I have never visited before, for a Conference-sponsored clergy Advent Retreat.We did collage-making with magazines.I hate collage-making with magazines. I always sit next to some who...

We saw Dr. S yesterday afternoon. Molly's shoulder, injured in September of last year, continues to be a little loose, but it's the left elbow that worries the vet. Always the primary site of lameness, it's the worry point now....

To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!Molly lies on the rug, blissful, as Pure Luck rubs her ear. No one else knows how to rub her quite this way, to make her...

Monday morning, grey skyDaughter off to schoolYellow leaves on the treesDogs beside themselvesAbove us, a man sleepsHush...hush...Weeks on the night shiftoff the doggy schedulelet the man rest nowBut every sound they heara breeze that moves the doora person walking byand...

Just like Tom Bodett, we left the light on last night, not just the front porch light, but a lamp in the living room. Pure Luck, you see, is coming home. And when you work in the nuclear power industry,...

(A sermon for Proper 27 November 9, 2008 Matthew 25:1-13)We have a lot of books at our house, in part because I grew up in a house full of books and in part because after college I worked in children’s...

I'm at the office, late on a Friday afternoon, awaiting the arrival of a wedding party. It's been a busy day at church, and even before I got here. Because I took the day off yesterday, I had a bulletin...

If you love dogs, as I do, a high moment in President-Elect Obama's speech had to be his words to his daughters, Malia and Sasha, promising that when they move into the White House, their long-held dream of a puppy...

(For the church's weekly email)You may have heard me speak about growing up in Portsmouth, Virginia, and the brick sidewalks and old houses and the church of my childhood. But in my first year of seminary, I met a classmate...

We're live-blogging the Election, complete with Chuck Todd's Widget!!! Look below the map for bloggage. 1:07 p.m. My Internet works again, praise the Lord! I just received a text from #1 Son, as follows:"Just saw Chuck Todd at Rockefeller Plaza."My...

I'm posting from the office because my home phone and internet are both down.This is not good.I hope I'll be able to get them up and going this afternoon in order to blog tonight.Meanwhile, go vote!!!

In a case of pretty hilarious media buying, a Republican group has been running a Jeremiah Wright-related anti-Obama ad over and over again on MSNBC. I'm not sure they understand who watches MSNBC. Morning Joe aficionados, lovers of Keith Olbermann,...