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    Why Do I Have to Change the World?
    Dan
    • Oct 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    Why Do I Have to Change the World?

    “Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and...
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    The Essential Sadness of Art
    Dan
    • Oct 9, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Essential Sadness of Art

    Photo credit: Piers Nye (Creative Commons) By Jeff Goins (https://goinswriter.com/sad-art/) Writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a...
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    Encountering the Faces of Jesus
    Dan
    • Sep 23, 2020
    • 5 min

    Encountering the Faces of Jesus

    Holy Face and Ten Names of God, Dirc van Delf, circa 1404 For now, we can only see a dim and blurry picture of things, as when we stare...
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    I Stand By The Door
    Dan
    • Sep 16, 2020
    • 4 min

    I Stand By The Door

    Artist's Mother Opening a Door, Édouard Vuillard, 1891 Samuel Moor Shoemaker III, DD, STD (1893–1963) was a priest of the Episcopal...
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    Try to Love One Another Right Now
    Dan
    • Sep 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    Try to Love One Another Right Now

    "Smile On Your Brother", Mural on Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, NY by Rico Fonseca Besides this, you know what time it is, how it...
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    Conversations in a Porch
    Dan
    • Aug 21, 2020
    • 8 min

    Conversations in a Porch

    A thoughtful essay from Arsenio Rodriguez in the Wall Street International Magazine, https://wsimag.com/feature/62082-conversations-in-a...
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    If These Walls Could Speak
    Dan
    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    If These Walls Could Speak

    "If These Walls Could Speak" by Dan Oberg, artist's footprints, watercolor & ink pen, 2020 I had the privilege of participating in an...
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    How Few Are the Lovers of the Cross of Jesus
    Dan
    • Jul 24, 2020
    • 2 min

    How Few Are the Lovers of the Cross of Jesus

    A Reading from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a' Kempis Jesus has many who love His Kingdom in Heaven, but few who bear His Cross...
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    Deepening Lives Through Community
    Dan
    • Jul 19, 2020
    • 2 min

    Deepening Lives Through Community

    “Deepening lives through volunteer service, social justice, spiritual practice, and intentional community.” Did you know the Episcopal...
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    Idolatry of Ideology
    Dan
    • Jul 5, 2020
    • 3 min

    Idolatry of Ideology

    Ideology, noun  1.  a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. Each...
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    Grief's Patient Friend
    Dan
    • Jun 28, 2020
    • 3 min

    Grief's Patient Friend

    “Like the rest of the world, I thought, ‘I can sit around listening to my own fears and anxieties and uncertainties or I can do something...
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    Movements Happen When We Discover We're Not Alone
    Dan
    • Jun 27, 2020
    • 4 min

    Movements Happen When We Discover We're Not Alone

    This is an excerpt of a soon to be released book, Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church Right Where You Are by Tim Soerens,...
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    I Love a Child, but She is Afraid of Me
    Dan
    • Jun 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    I Love a Child, but She is Afraid of Me

    This is a short story that I first read years ago by Walt Wangerin. I was immediately struck by the brutal honesty of the piece,...
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    "That's All I Want"
    Dan
    • Jun 16, 2020
    • 2 min

    "That's All I Want"

    Contemporary Justice and Child, Symeon Shimin, 1940 Great Hall, Dept. Of Justice, Washington DC People hate this kind of talk.     Raw...
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    St. Columba Day, Our Home & Thin Places
    Dan
    • Jun 9, 2020
    • 5 min

    St. Columba Day, Our Home & Thin Places

    Let the sea make a noise and all that is in it, *        the lands and those who dwell therein. Let the rivers clap their hands, *       ...
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    Lover's Lament (A paraphrase of Psalm 13.  For Jolyn.)
    Dan
    • Jun 7, 2020
    • 3 min

    Lover's Lament (A paraphrase of Psalm 13. For Jolyn.)

    I How long, O Eternal One? How long will You make us wait for justice? Forever?  How long will You remain silent?  Are you speaking in a...
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    Lukewarm Acceptance
    Dan
    • May 30, 2020
    • 3 min

    Lukewarm Acceptance

    First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the...
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    Rise With Us!
    Dan
    • May 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    Rise With Us!

    This past January, Lois and I attended the Episcopal Camps & Conference Centers Annual Conference, held at the Claggett Center in...
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    Promises Made, Promises Kept
    Dan
    • May 17, 2020
    • 2 min

    Promises Made, Promises Kept

    Form them in the practices and postures that I have taught you, and show them how to follow the commands I have laid down for you. And I...
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    Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
    Dan
    • May 12, 2020
    • 4 min

    Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

    This old Victorian rhyme, still honored to this day by many brides, signifies the tradition of warding off ill-fortune by the wearing of...
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