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Beloved Community,

Sighs Too Deep for Words

October 14th, 2023

On weeks like this one, even for those like me who work with words and Word, I come up wordless in the face of such horrors like those we've watched unfold in I...

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Beloved Community,

The Beauty of Music-Making

September 16th, 2023

I came of age as a singer under the direction of musicians who were themselves students and supporters of the famed conductor, Robert Shaw. ...

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Beloved Community,

“Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard.”

August 12th, 2023

Several years ago, when I began contemplating what would “make my heart sing,” in the words of the National Clergy Renewal Program’s sabbatical applicatio...

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Beloved Community,

The Complicated Feelings of May

May 11th, 2023

“I just want you to remind yourself,” she says rather cheekily, “you could run marathons; you could climb Mount Everest; because you have figured out how ...

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