seeing gray
Writing in Sojouorners magazine (In the prison-industrial complex, is there hope for redemption?), Nancy Hastings Sehested, a Baptist minister and prison chaplain, describes a North Carolina...
View Articleputting the wolf in danger
The gray wolf has just been de-listed from the Endangered Species list in three states: Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. All three states are already making plans to authorize wolf kills. It’s a bad idea,...
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This poem by David Wagoner, entitled “Lost” was posted on April 18th at the inward/outward website … Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,...
View Articlereminders of an (almost) perfect day
This is one of my favorite photographs from a five-mile hike over Penobscot and Sargent mountains in Acadia National Park. It frames the reflection of the Bubbles overlooking the north end of Jordan...
View Articlewhat makes the soul great
Notice the Wonder was posted today on the inward/outward website. It quotes Abraham Heschel, a theologian and a lover of God whom I have always found most insightful and eloquent. To pray is to take...
View Articleeaster sunrise
Two photos from Easter Sunday morning one just before sunrise, and the other just after …
View Articlea spring delight
I have been experimenting with our new digital camera, the camera I plan to use extensively this summer during my sabbatical. This is a photo of the phlox and daylily shoots growing at the foot of our...
View Articleeveryone loves a parade
Last Friday evening, I rode in a parade through the streets of downtown Waterloo. I saw some of you along the route: Lee Jensen and all the Prescotts, Kurt Kaliban, and Grant and Klara Hornung. It was...
View Articlea great man died tonight
A great man died tonight … Lynn Nielsen was great by the only measure that matters, that so many of us loved him. We loved him for his courage, living and dying with multiple myeloma. Eventually it...
View Articlein three weeks
Three weeks from now, I will be on my way here … returning to the Isle of Iona and the Iona Abbey for the third time. I will be taking nine companions, one of whom was with me when I brought a group...
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