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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2017/08/06

Wrestling. Of all things

I don’t know about you but I don’t think about wrestling very often. It isn’t that I look down on wrestling or think it is silly or anything like that, I simply don’t think about it at all. But sometime I’m “forced” to.  This Sunday is one of those times. Not because I got into […]

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2014/08/03

Remember bad and good

Several weeks ago the Presbyterian Church in Canada asked congregations to consider doing something to recognize that August 4, 2014 is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I. The reminder that this is a centennial year was a good one, I was aware of it in the “non-preaching” part of my brain […]

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