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Peter and I watch TV the way other people go to the movies. We watch about once a week, always together. It is always an event. We pick one show at a time. Years ago, it was Survivor. Then The West Wing. Then Lost, interspersed by summer series to make up the long stretches without…

A few nights back, I decided it was time to teach Penny the Lord’s Prayer. I was kneeling beside her bed, as I always do at bedtime. She sat up and put her hands together. “I’ll say a line, and then you repeat it.” “Otay.” “Our Father,” I started, but then interrupted myself. “Penny, did…

God refuses to work alone. God insists on working through human beings. So often, I wish God would agree to our cartoon image and intervene with dramatic action, lightning bolts, booming voices from the sky… Instead, he wants us to be “the body of Christ,” the hands and feet and eyes and ears that communicate…

I’ve come across this verse before, but it never ceases to amaze me: “Heal me, Lord, for I have sinned against you.” Psalm 41:4. It’s as if I punched a doctor in the face and broke her nose and then turned to her and said, “I’m very sorry about your nose. Also, I seem to…
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