The Renovating Reverend

Rambling thoughts on renovating the home, mind, and spirit

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  • Some Windows Only Give Light
    You don’t expect to mourn a book, do you? It happens unexpectedly. You revisit a writer who once helped you see people more generously — someone whose stories widened your moral imagination — and then you unexpectedly run across an interview or something they wrote outside of the story. A casual cruelty. A stereotype. A sentence that shuts a door the novel taught you to open wide. You stare at the page. Nothing around you changes, but you feel something shift inside.
  • A Christmas Eve Return
    After a long break, I’m returning to active blogging. One of my first blog posts, on blogspot, over fifteen years ago, was a Christmas Eve sermon that I had given. It was hastily written, and I’d always wanted to rework the ending, to convey my thoughts more clearly. What better way to return to the… Read more: A Christmas Eve Return

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