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In some church calendars, today is All Soul’s Day, or “The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed.” All Saint’s Day is November 1. All Hallows Eve is October 31. This isn’t a lesson on the celebrations of the church. Instead, it’s a quiet plea to replace, briefly, All and Every with Each. Each soul. Each […]

Here’s Rich Dixon: +++ Gren-vul was a great place for a rest day. Old churches and jazz clubs, imagining civil rights struggles and music legends on those same streets. An interview for the evening news. We returned to The Shotgun House, books in hand. The place was busy this evening. The local news appeared on […]

(I know. It’s Halloween and I’m already talking about Christmas! But if you want to order one of these resources, we’ve got just a month until Advent.) If you’ve been here for very long, you know that I’ve talked about Advent as a season of preparation before Christmas. In the Northern Hemisphere where this description […]

Back to talking about presence: The woman was walking by the coffin, lost in grief. Her husband, gone years ago. Her only son, her only hope, her only support, now heading to the cemetery in that wooden box. We have a word for widow. We have a word for orphan. We have no simple word […]

God. I think we really need you. We are, we admit, weary of all the noise and fear and confusion. We are weary of our friends yelling at our friends.We are afraid of what will happen if someone thinks we said the wrong thing.We are confused by all the opinions and ultimatums and statements which […]