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Labor Pains
A poem, a prayer and a passage for Christmas Eve: The pinnacle of Advent expectation and longing ‘I will make you a great nation Endowed with power to bless and curse Through your seed, your only son...
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Isaiah 40 In the Shadow of Ferguson, Staten Island, and ISIS
God promises comfort: comfort in safe hiding places lifted up, in high retreats brought low, in life coming at us like a freeway; a world of terror, racism, homelessness, poverty. Where is the comfort?...
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A Delayed Meditation on Joy
Always rejoice . . . here in this time of snow and slush, colds and flu and stress . . . wondering about the end of the month, the end of the year, the early ends of every day . . . too much to do, too...
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A Love Song in Hungry Days
Love, coming as a baby, placed us upon a throne. Weak and self-insufficient, that Love became our own, all inhibitions shed, a meal for all creation served in the House of Bread. Love we were not...
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Christmas Eve With a Nod Toward Milton Street
One last piece of poetry for Advent, this one inspired just a bit by a story Ann Kansfield, intrepid co-pastor at Greenpoint Reformed Church, Brooklyn, told yesterday and today. Sitting on the hillside...
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Gabriel’s Log, Entry One
What follows here and over the next few days in That Reformed Blog will be entries rarely seen by human beings: the personal logs of a commander in the armies of heaven on field assignment to...
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Gabriel’s Log, Entry Two
Here’s the second installment of the logs from Gabriel’s field assignment—James Hart Brumm Personal Log of Gabriel, Messenger First Class, Trumpeter Second Class, Advance Unit of the Assault Division,...
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Gabriel’s Log, Third Entry
In the third installment of the logs from his field assignment, Gabriel takes a different approach—James Hart Brumm Personal Log of Gabriel, Messenger First Class, Trumpeter Second Class, Advance Unit...
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Mary’s Pregnancy Journal—Fifth Entry Continuing a series of entries in an imaginary journal, as we think about what might have been in the mind of Mary. “God’s mercy is for those who fear God from...
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Continuing a series of entries in an imaginary journal, as we think about what might have been in the mind of Mary. “God has shown strength with God’s arm, and has scattered the proud in the thoughts...
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Continuing a series of entries in an imaginary journal, as we think about what might have been in the mind of Mary. “God has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the humble.” I’m...
View ArticleMary’s Pregnancy Journal–Entry Eight
Continuing a series of entries in an imaginary journal, as we think about what might have been in the mind of Mary. “God has filled the hungry with good things.” Things here at home have been so much...
View ArticleMary’s Pregnancy Journal–Entry Nine
Continuing a series of entries in an imaginary journal, as we think about what might have been in the mind of Mary. “God has sent the rich away empty.” The government has ordered a census. Some...
View ArticleMary’s Pregnancy Journal–Final Entry
The last in a series of entries in an imaginary journal, as we think about what might have been in the mind of Mary. “God has helped God’s servant Israel, in remembrance of God’s mercy, according to...
View ArticleIs There Joy?
A few days before Christmas, as I was walking from the parking ramp where I’d left my car to the hospital, I saw a patient transport vehicle leaving another parking garage. The driver hollered out the...
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