Advent 4: Uncertain

A girl is somewhere. No one knows exactly where. She could be at home. She is inside somewhere. She is, we know, in a town called Nazareth. An angel shows up and tells her that God is happy with her. Her response? She is very perplexed. She is agitated. In her mind she goes over […]

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big and small uses of time

(Paul Merrill writes here every First Friday) A few weeks ago, a friend mentioned that he told his pastor how wrong he was to clean the church’s toilets. This friend (let’s call him “Bob”) said how much wiser it would be to hire a cleaner who needed the work – and his pastor could spend […]

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