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The Mixed Emotions of Going to Camp

I remember well the summer I was 9 years old, when my parents packed me off to sleep-away camp. I had been to a shorter overnight camp...
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The Water Cycle

It is easy to forget in our world of technological and medical advances that the ancients could be quite advanced for their time and history. The great...
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Remembering the Keys

When I was six years old, my mom claimed an old upright piano that a local elementary school was giving away and signed me up for lessons....
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The Thin Places

There is a passage in the Quran that informs Muslims that Allah is closer to humans than their jugular vein. In Japanese Buddhism there is a wonderful...
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It’s Not Too Late

This week I’ve been wrestling (again) with one of the most difficult stories I’ve ever heard. A couple weeks ago I reflected on a Bible story about...
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The Dancing Bus of Mull

One of the most sacred places I have had the good fortune to visit is the Island of Iona, which sits off the west coast of Scotland....
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Making Room

I have been thinking a lot this week about hospitality. In my home growing up, our family’s out-of-town guests slept on a pullout sofa in the den,...
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What Makes You Super

Though superhero sagas aren’t usually my thing, I really enjoyed the new “Wonder Woman” movie. What I appreciated about most about this movie (aside from off-the-charts female...
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On the Move

Well…we are moving again. “We” in this instance is not a reference to Braid but to the Chase family. We have moved several times over the years...
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The Long Haul

Earlier this month I signed up for a 14.6-mile hike, even though I haven’t hiked a distance of more than a few miles in over a decade....
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