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posted on September 1, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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As this series winds toward its conclusion, I find myself reflecting on the dozen-or-so years I’ve enjoyed in our church. It’s not surprising that the moments that linger are moments of laughter.
posted on August 15, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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The fundamentalist religious right … the same type of sound religious principles as Osama Bin Laden,” wrote one.
posted on August 1, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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Sometimes grandma on her knees can get more truth than the philosopher on his tiptoes.
posted on July 15, 2010 in Blogs, Miscellaneous, Wondering Wanderer
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Spong categorically rejects Wright’s interpretation of a supernatural God who miraculously invades the world to save us from the reality of death.
posted on July 1, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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Most readers will have guessed from my wanderings that I’m on the back nine of life. As I made the turn, I hoped to make more birdies on the way home than I did on the outward nine. It depends, of course, on who’s keeping score but on m my card.
posted on June 15, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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By the time you read this we’ll have become grandparents for the fourth time.
posted on June 1, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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I composed this in my mind one morning while the dentist had her way with my teeth.
posted on May 15, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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In a coincidence that I think was unconnected with the loss of a beloved sister-in-law during the last Christmas season, I have read two books about death and resurrection in recent weeks.
posted on May 1, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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We are a religion of the word and, boy, do we hear a lot of words.
posted on April 15, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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It certainly doesn’t vibrate with Christian compassion but, let’s face it, there are some people we just don’t like.
posted on April 1, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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I’ve often wondered whether we all must diligently travel along the same path, desperately seeking God. Is the only truth our truth, the legacy that was recorded in the Old and New Testaments?
posted on March 15, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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One of the things about joining a church, it soon became clear, is that you’re expected to serve God. Apparently that meant more than just showing up on Sundays, ruminating about the message, and dropping a few dollars in the plate. You actually gotta do something.
posted on March 1, 2010 in Columns, Wondering Wanderer
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In my youth I became a fan of Marshall McLuhan, cryptic sage of “the medium is the message.” His thesis, as I understood it, is a useful prism through which to deconstruct the present-day plight of the churches our age calls mainstream. You know, the ones with all the puzzled faces in the few pews the are occupied. Even Presbyterian ministers are writing revolutionary essays and letters in the pages of the Record.
posted on February 15, 2010 in Wondering Wanderer
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This marks my tenth little step along this wandering, wondering path and, though the theologians have winced and the traditionalists have shuddered, they haven’t thrown me out of the Presbyterian Church yet.
posted on February 1, 2010 in Wondering Wanderer
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Maybe demographics explain why many of us drift into gardening as the years pass. One of my mother’s favourite stories was about the day, as a tiny diapered tot, I backed into a rose bush—so perhaps destiny is at work.
posted on January 15, 2010 in Wondering Wanderer
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The challenge, the delight, of “doing radio” alone in a darkened studio is to make listeners of those who only hear. Dictionaries are a little ambiguous about my hair splitting, but when the reader proclaims: “Hear the word of God,” I think “listen to God’s word” might be more fruitful instruction.
posted on January 1, 2010 in Wondering Wanderer
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The dawning new year seems a moment that needs prayer as we face the unkown ahead. I suppose there is a course about prayer I could sign up for somewhere and maybe it would be helpful, like consulting a golf pro about my backswing.
posted on December 15, 2009 in Wondering Wanderer
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The wind, howling from the heights of the Rockies, lashed tiny snow tornados across the moon-silvered Depression-era prairie. Half a lifetime later, the young man staring into the night would be short and plump, with a fringe of snow-white hair crowning twinkling eyes and a merry smile seeking the next excuse to laugh; but in that frozen hell, laughter seemed ashes of some spiteful dream.
posted on December 1, 2009 in Wondering Wanderer
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With a stack of Kung, Armstrong, Frye and others by my side, I embark on a voyage of biblical exploration. I imagine hearing pitiful screams of tiny angels losing their grip on the crowded heads of pins. Often a phrase will cause me to lift my eyes and gaze out the window. Why didn’t Jesus tell his disciples about the universe his Father created?
posted on November 15, 2009 in Wondering Wanderer
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To the God-inspired men who wrote the Bible, Earth was the centre of the universe God created for us. Prophets and kings would have found it easy to imagine a sovereign atop the clouds ruling his dominions, sending emissary angels to encourage or rebuke wandering desert nomads. How dramatically this clashes with our “modern” perspective in which our dear green and blue planet is so infinitely tiny as to almost surpass imagination. And there, perhaps, is the key.
