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"Scraps" by Director Dan Oberg
Dan's blog posts over the pandemic have been edited and collected in book form. You can order printed or electronic copies here: ...
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Dan
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Bookends: Norway & Austria
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet,...
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Dan
- Feb 19
- 4 min
Italy
First of all, let's get one thing straight. Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable...
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Dan
- Jan 31
- 3 min
Israel & Palestine
In this chapter of our sabbatical, we joined the Come & See Pilgrimage led by outgoing Bishop Rickel of the Diocese. The challenge of...
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Dan
- Jan 16
- 4 min
Morocco
"Traveling: it gives you home in a thousand places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land." - Ibn Battuta My wife and I spent the...
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Dan
- Nov 26, 2022
- 2 min
Along the Road
The Flame Going to Nazareth by Frank Wesley, 1923-2002 Wesley was born in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh into a fifth generation Christian...
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Dan
- Dec 31, 2021
- 2 min
Resolution
res·o·lute /ˈrezəˌl(y)o͞ot/ adjective admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering: "she was resolute and unswerving " New Year’s...
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Dan
- Dec 25, 2021
- 1 min
24 Questions for Advent: Twenty-Four
Holy Family, Margret Hofheinz-Döring, 1973 And you? Who do you say that I am? Matthew 16:15, The Voice Who will you say that I am? That...
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Dan
- Dec 24, 2021
- 3 min
24 Questions for Advent: Twenty-Three
Christ Crucified, John Pettis, Gift to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church from the people of Wales, U.K When the men came to Jesus, they...
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Dan
- Dec 23, 2021
- 3 min
24 Questions for Advent: Twenty-Two
Why did you doubt and dance back and forth between following Me and heeding fear? Matthew 14:31, The Voice The story of Jesus walking on...
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Dan
- Dec 22, 2021
- 3 min
24 Questions for Advent: Twenty-One
Don't Worry by Martin Creed, installed at St. Peter's Church, Cologne, Germany Worrying does not do any good; who here can claim to add...
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Dan
- Dec 21, 2021
- 3 min
24 Questions for Advent: Twenty
The Return of the Prodigal Son (detail), Rembrandt van Rijn Some of you are fathers, so ask yourselves this: if your son comes up to you...
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Dan
- Dec 20, 2021
- 4 min
24 Questions for Advent: Nineteen
When wilt thou save the people? Oh, God of Mercy, when? Stephen Schwartz, Godspell And he told them a parable, to the effect that they...
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Dan
- Dec 18, 2021
- 2 min
24 Questions for Advent: Eighteen
And then I said to Him, “Will you not come to my house?” And He said, “Am I not already in your house?” - Kahlil Gibran, Jesus the Son of...
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Dan
- Dec 17, 2021
- 3 min
24 Questions for Advent: Seventeen
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? - Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams, Dead Poets...
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Dan
- Dec 16, 2021
- 3 min
24 Questions for Advent: Sixteen
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? –...
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Dan
- Dec 15, 2021
- 3 min
24 Questions for Advent: Fifteen
How many times can we wake up in this comic book and plant flowers? - Rodriguez, Cause I watched a moving documentary from 2012 called...
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Dan
- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
24 Questions for Advent: Fourteen
Oh, when will we ever learn? Oh, when will we ever learn? - Pete Seeger, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? I am not a pacifist. I believe...
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