Tag: pastor
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(Un)Finished
My latest in the Christian Courier. ___________________ Over the past months, a few friends and acquaintances of mine have been reading Jon Acuff’s book Finish: Giving yourself the gift of done—it’s a book you will find on the “motivational” or “self-help” shelf (or would, if we still had bookstores!). Acuff has written Finish with the…
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Monday Sabbath (a new poem)
Monday Sabbath The preacher lives a Monday Sabbath as the world rushes to the quotidian; the city-bus groan, office politics, classroom chaos, breakfast to go. Resist the voice that insists on Productivity! Usefulness! Preparedness! Refuse the myth of indispensability, lie that dies slowly, deserving a quick burial, oblivion. Roll from bed into a day rife…
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