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Damn. I just tipped over my little marble-topped table, and the marble top broke into three big pieces, together with a goodly number of tiny marble shards and chips of the semi-precious stones with which it was inlaid. It was a lovely thing, all right, made in the same way and in the same place as the Taj Mahal. Imagine: we brought it all the way back from India, only to have it meet its sudden and tragic end in New Jersey. What a way to go.
I would have thought it might have been a little stronger than that. It was marble, after all: like the Parthenon, for heaven's sake, which has stood for more than 2500 years, or the Taj itself, built in the 17th century. It's a stone. But down it went, a distance of about 18 inches, and that was that.
Lead crystal is like that, too. A Waterford wine glass and a matching tumbler both went home to Jesus over the holidays: solid, gorgeous, hefty things, they were. They look like they'd be impervious to just about anything. But just because something is solid and hefty doesn't mean it's sturdy. I myself might be described as solid and hefty, for instance, by someone who didn't mind getting on my bad side, but there have been times in my life when I have been quite delicate.
Some things can look pretty strong and still be in need of some serious protection. Most things, maybe.
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| Copyright © 2010 Barbara Crafton |
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The Life of All Things - 05/01/08
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The Prayer Time in the Prayer Place - 04/30/08
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Little Cat Feet - 04/29/08
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The Divine Repurpose - 04/22/08
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Something From Nothing - 04/14/08
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The Good of the Group - 04/09/08
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Sleeping and Waking - 04/07/08
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The Worst of Times / Walking and Talking - 04/04/08
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The Time Has Come - 04/02/08
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Sweet Sorrow - 03/31/08
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Letting Things Be - 03/27/08
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Sons and Daughters - 03/25/08
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Resurrection Rules - 03/24/08
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Words Fail Me - 03/21/08
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Stripped - 03/20/08
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A Bad Beginning - 03/18/08
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What's-Her-Name Returns - 03/17/08
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Deserters / An Innocent Cup of Coffee - 03/14/08
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Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory - 01/21/08
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A Dream On Its Way - 01/17/08
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Ben: A Teaching Moment - 01/15/08
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An Adventure in Love / Beyond Presidential Politics - 01/11/08
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Training the Brain - 01/09/08
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Taking Down Christmas - 01/07/08
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Love of Modest and Mighty Delight - 01/02/08
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Almonds and Walnuts - 12/31/07
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Into His Own / Three Years Ago - 12/28/07
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Battle, Murder and Sudden Death - 12/27/07
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Lessons and Carols - 12/26/07
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Dear Ones - 12/24/07
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A New Thing - 12/21/07
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Garden State - 12/17/07
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Earn This! / The Desert Blooms - 12/14/07
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Cats that Glow in the Dark - 12/13/07
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La Virgen - 12/12/07
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We'll Leave the Porch Light On - 12/10/07
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Holy Enough? / A Baby and a Snake - 12/07/07
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The Counting Prayer: We Have the Means - 12/06/07
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Candle Stand - 12/05/07
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A Slight Sweet Sting - 12/04/07
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Pride Goeth Before a Fall - 12/03/07
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Nobody Knows / With Only the Clothes on Their Backs - 11/30/07
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Book Signing - 11/29/07
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Old Aprons - 11/27/07
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The Daily Office - 11/26/07
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How to Know a Real King When You See One - 11/24/07
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The Signature Dish - 11/21/07
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First Flakes: Just One of Those Things - 11/19/07
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Where's Jesus? / Mending Work - 11/16/07
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Bedtime - 11/13/07
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Things Can End - 11/12/07
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Whose Will We Be? / Gifts to Strengthen - 11/09/07
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Universal Service - 11/07/07
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Sometimes Love Makes Us Lovable - 11/05/07
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Oops...one of the beatitude poems needs an important pair of corrections - 11/02/07
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Beatitudes - 11/02/07
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Not Doing What Comes Naturally - 11/01/07
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Cycladian Cats - 10/31/07
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Theaters and Parades - 10/30/07
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The High Point - 10/29/07
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Faith: A Lot Louder Than You Think / Kids Always Take It on the Chin - 10/17/07
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The Face We Show the World - 10/15/07
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Festivals - 10/14/07
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Anglican Split Peace Soup - 10/12/07
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Kitten on the Prowl - 10/11/07
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Jersey Figs - 10/10/07
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Old and New: The Beginning Is the End - 10/08/07
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A Slave to Duty - 10/06/07
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Busy Birthday - 10/03/07
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The Thrill of the Chase - 10/01/07
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A Wideness in God's Mercy / Narrowing the Gap - 09/28/07
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Any Job Worth Doing - 09/27/07
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To Have And To Hold - 09/24/07
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Your Money or Your Love - 09/21/07
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Art Does It First - 09/20/07
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Better to Fail at Something Than at Nothing - 09/20/07
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From the Animals: The Gift of Perspective - 09/19/07
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The Quiet Confidence of Repentance / Skilled in Doing Good - 09/15/07
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The eMos: A Brief History - 09/13/07
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Grace, With or Without Our Leave - 09/11/07
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Last Stand in the Favorite Season - 09/10/07
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The Table Man - 09/03/07
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At A Dinner Party, Jesus Saves / Only 116 More Shopping Days 'Til Christmas - 09/01/07
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The Gift of a Resounding 'NO' - 08/31/07
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An Ancient Joke / Learning How-To in Haiti - 08/24/07
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Office Machinery and the Blessed Life - 08/22/07
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Undocumented Immigrants - 08/20/07
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Waste Not, Want Not - 08/17/07
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How Do We known What We Know? / What Does God Send? - 08/16/07
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Team Eden - 08/14/07
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The Thrill of the Chase - 08/13/07
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Jesus is Coming; Look Busy. / Locking A Door - 08/10/07
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Long Days and Short Seasons - 08/08/07
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Embracing Failure - 08/07/07
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Moving With the Times - 08/06/07
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The Garden on Cruise Control - 08/02/07
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Let the Bunnies Bury Their Dead - 08/01/07
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Love, in the Fire Made Lovely - 07/30/07
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Beach Songs - 07/26/07
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First Checkup - 07/24/07
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A Visit to Sri Venkateswara - 07/23/07
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The Gift Underneath It All / Mothers and Children - 07/20/07
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Pollination - 07/17/07
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New Business, Each and All - 07/16/07
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The Right Answer / A Samaritan Takes A Chance - 07/14/07
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Hold Tight or Ease Up? - 07/12/07
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Battle Scars - 07/11/07
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Mating Season - 07/09/07
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Cardinal Ambition / It's Not Rocket Science - 07/06/07
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A Rescue - 07/05/07
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Sic Transit - 07/04/07
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Last Lunch - 07/03/07
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Any Color But Beige - 07/02/07
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A Cat Named Kitten - 06/30/07
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Let the Dead Bury Their Dead - 06/29/07
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Bald Eagle - 06/28/07
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What Is and What Is Not - 06/26/07
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Unfinished Symphony - 06/25/07
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Giving Our Demons Away - 06/23/07
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Being There: Watch and Pray - 06/21/07
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Gear Up - 06/19/07
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A Book Sabbath - 06/18/07
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You're Wearing That?!? - 06/14/07
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Run the Country, or Just Have a Beer? - 06/13/07
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Invasive Species - 06/11/07
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Jesus Without Makeup - 06/08/07
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Torn - 06/07/07
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Those Old Bible Movies - 06/04/07
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No Place Like Home - 06/02/07
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The Time for the Truth / Katrina, Phase Four - 06/01/07
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We Who Are About To Die Salute You - 05/28/07
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How God Shows Us Things / City of God - 05/25/07
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Knowing, Even As We Are Known - 05/23/07
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Possibilities Down East - 05/22/07
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A Time and a Place for Everything / Waters of Death, Water of Life - 05/18/07
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Be Fruitful - 05/17/07
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My Little Chickadee - 05/16/07
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In the Beauty of the Lilies - 05/15/07
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It Works If You Work It - 05/14/07
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A Merry Chase / A Dealer in Purple Cloth - 05/11/07
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The Artist Formerly Known As Ben - 05/08/07
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What I Learned From Longing - 05/07/07
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Everyone Will Know / In the Midst of a Flood, A Spring - 05/04/07
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Here Comes the Sun - 05/03/07
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Much Better Than Nothing - 04/30/07
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Two Walks / Of Course, I Will Help - 04/26/07
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Love and Marriage - 04/25/07
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The Holy Story - 04/23/07
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What's In Your Heart of Hearts? / God is Good, All the Time - 04/19/07
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Deeper in Prayer, and Quieter - 04/18/07
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Worst Case Scenario - 04/17/07
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Waiting in the Rain - 04/16/07
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A Loaded Gun - 04/13/07
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So It Goes - 04/12/07
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Nailprints / It Takes Time to Rejoice - 04/11/07
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The Garden Branches Out - 04/10/07
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The Lord High Executioner - 04/09/07
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Holy Saturday - 04/07/07
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Good Friday - 04/06/07
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Maundy Thursday - 04/05/07
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Wednesday in Holy Week - 04/04/07
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Tuesday in Holy Week - 04/03/07
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Monday in Holy Week - 04/02/07
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Palm Sunday - 04/01/07
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Palm Sunday Politics / Women Doing What They Can - 03/30/07
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Confession - 03/29/07
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Here Comes the Sun - 03/28/07
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All Used Up / Costly Ointment, Clean Water - 03/23/07
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Pumpkin Soup for the Soul. And the Body. - 03/22/07
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A Cleansing - 03/20/07
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Back to the Mountain - 03/19/07
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Taxman - 03/15/07
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Marybone - 03/13/07
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The Turn of the Season - 03/12/07
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A Repentance Warning / Patience and Courage - 03/09/07
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The One You Feed - 03/08/07
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Cookie Creep - 03/06/07
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I can deal with an imperfect Church - 03/02/07
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Don't Worry, Everything New Is Also Old - 02/27/07
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Spirit and Gut - 02/26/07
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After the Retreat - 02/24/07
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The Devil Quotes Scripture / A Dry Season - 02/22/07
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Lent Books - 02/21/07
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Mardi Gras - 02/20/07
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Lemon - 02/19/07
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Where's the Dread? / One Next Sunday - 02/16/07
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First Things First - 02/14/07
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Sleep Deficit - 02/13/07
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A Weekend Beginning - 02/10/07
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The Limitations of Like Minds / New Tools, More Food and a Lot More Time - 02/09/07
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Flat Head - 02/08/07
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Birds of a Feather Fight Together - 02/07/07
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Wisdom - 02/06/07
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Nobody Does It Better - 02/05/07
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Comfortable Words / We Will Not Forget You - 02/02/07
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Three Pillars: The Zen of Ben - 02/01/07
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What I Do Is Up To Me - 01/29/07
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The Straightening - 01/27/07
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Sabbath Evening - 01/26/07
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A Quick Change in Pastorate / Anybody and Everybody - 01/25/07
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Evacuation - 01/24/07
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Love the One You're With: A Life in Cats - 01/22/07
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The Group - 01/20/07
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Jesus Goes To His High School Reunion / Glad To Be Alive - 01/19/07
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Not By a Long Shot - 01/17/07
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Lose Weight in Your Pajamas! - 01/16/07
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O Gladdening Light - 01/16/07
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Being the Change You Want to See - 01/15/07
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The Good Wine / What We Learn in School - 01/12/07
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Two Proper Places - 01/10/07
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Purrs and Prayers - 01/09/07
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A Tender Self - 01/08/07
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Visitors - 01/06/07
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Baptizing the Lukewarm / Just How Is God With Us? - 01/05/07
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You'll Think of Something - 01/04/07
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A Premature Departure - 01/03/07
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Resolutions and Prayers - 01/02/07
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Cats on Drugs - 12/30/06
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The Word of God / Civil War and Civil Healing - 12/29/06
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Flowers and Bears - 12/28/06
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Feast of St. John Doe - 12/27/06
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Deacon and Martyr - 12/26/06
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Christmas 101 - 12/23/06
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She Who Believed / For the Person Who Has Everything - 12/22/06
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Roommates - 12/21/06
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The Self-Anointed Righteous - 12/20/06
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Zindaagi! - 12/19/06
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The Perfect Tree - 12/18/06
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Never Mind - 12/16/06
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Cupcake-ness - 12/15/06
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Good and Faithful Servant - 12/14/06
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Good News-Bad News / Needs and Wants: Nothing to Wear - 12/13/06
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One of Those Years - 12/12/06
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Emergency Room--Carpe Dieum - 12/11/06
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Down the Drain - 12/09/06
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Messiah - 12/08/06
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The Big Boys / Gifts From the Heart - 12/07/06
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Ordination, Feast of St Nicholas, 1980 - 12/06/06
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A Blanket of Air - 12/05/06
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Gift List - 12/04/06
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No Coincidences? - 11/30/06
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What Do You See? / Face to Face - 11/29/06
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Not Another Cat Tale - 11/27/06
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Celery is the New Toast - 11/24/06
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Cooking With the Next Generation - 11/22/06
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Fainting Dead Away - 11/20/06
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A Mystery, But Not a Secret - 11/17/06
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Lucky Isn't Good Enough - 11/15/06
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Wanna Buy Some Hope? / Food That Does Not Fail - 11/10/06
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The Farm Summit - 11/08/06
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Citizen Q - 11/07/06
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Jesus Picks and Chooses / Love Is A Goal - 11/03/06
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Halloween Unplugged - 10/31/06
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Very Simple, But Still Here - 10/28/06
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Differently Abled / Who Knows What You Need? - 10/27/06
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Second-Hand Life - 10/24/06
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Just A Month To Go - 10/23/06
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Who Sits Where? / Bright Sunny Days - 10/20/06
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Good News For a Change - 10/13/06
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Spooks in the Garden, Spiders on the Porch / New Houses For Old - 10/12/06
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Rest --Don't Schedule! - 10/09/06
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Lies in the Garden - 10/04/06
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Not Invented Here - 09/30/06
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Confusion and Gift - 09/25/06
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Shabby Thoughts / Welcoming The Child - 09/23/06
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The Dream of the Priest - 09/20/06
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Why Take Up My Cross? - 09/16/06
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A Traffic Jam and Pieta - 09/11/06
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Up Close and Personal / A Balance of Hearing and Doing - 09/08/06
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Missing the First Day of School - 09/06/06
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The Turning - 09/05/06
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The Sermon of the Fruit Fly - 09/04/06
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A Busy Conscience / In the Middle of a War - 09/01/06
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Intimations of Mortality - 08/29/06
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The Spirit and the Word / Do You Also Wish To Go Away? - 08/26/06
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Garden Tour - 08/23/06
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The Guns of August - 08/17/06
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Drawn by the Father / Help That Really Helps - 08/11/06
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Hummingbird Heaven - 08/10/06
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I Am a Catheter - 08/08/06
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Chairs in Distress and Bliss - 08/07/06
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Silence, and Light Beyond Color / A Bright Light - 08/04/06
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Hot and Cold - 08/02/06
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While - 07/31/06
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Tomato: We Shall Not Be Moved - 07/19/06
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The Geometry of Choice - 07/18/06
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On the Road Again / The Demons of War and the Prince of Peace - 07/13/06
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Dinner With Ethel Merman - 07/11/06
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A Dream and a Production Meeting - 07/10/06
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Leaving Home / Small Deeds of Power - 07/08/06
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Independence Day / Day of Dysfunction - 07/05/06
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A Sophistication Gap / Even Before the Rain Has Stopped - 06/30/06
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Mensch and Mitzvah - 06/29/06
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The Lasagna Method of Gardening - 06/24/06
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Whipping Boy / Tell Your Friends - 06/23/06
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Peace in Our Time - 06/22/06
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In the Beauty of the Mustard / A Part of the Middle Harvest - 06/16/06
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The Grace of the Machine - 06/15/06
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Thelma and Louise - 06/13/06
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Adelynrood - 06/10/06
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What Difference Does It Make, Anyway? - 06/08/06
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A Famous Short Creed / Walking Toward the Kingdom, Working on the World - 06/07/06
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Patience - 06/06/06
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Objects in This Life Are Larger Than They Appear - 06/05/06
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Population Control - 06/01/06
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A Loss Not Yet Spoken - 05/30/06
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Excavation - 05/30/06
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Greeting the Garden - 05/22/06
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Morning and Evening, A Second Day - 05/17/06
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Love Means... - 05/12/06
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't / Friends Join Hands on the Jericho Road - 05/11/06
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The Cookbook and the Church - 05/09/06
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Face - 05/08/06
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The Good Shepherd Weeps / A New Kind of Falling in Love - 05/03/06
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Doorknobs in the Fruit Bowl - 05/01/06
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Alligators - 04/24/06
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A Choice, Not a Conclusion / Scars Still Show, But They Don't Still Bleed - 04/20/06
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Where Are They Now? - 04/19/06
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Waiting, Holy Saturday - 04/15/06
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Judas, In Rewrite - 04/13/06
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Howl: Bach's St. John Passion - 04/10/06
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ePrayer - 04/04/06
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The Life in the Seed / Stopping by the Plant Stand - 03/31/06
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Birthday - 03/28/06
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The Lord Will Provide / Bang for the Buck - 03/24/06
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The Moment Farthest - 03/22/06
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Happy Waiting - 03/20/06
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Turning the Tables / Under Construction for Forty-Six Years - 03/16/06
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Bleeding Heart - 03/14/06
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Ethel On Her Way - 03/11/06
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The Lesson We Have To Preach On - 03/09/06
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Tug of War - 03/06/06
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The Princess Plate - 02/28/06
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Serenity in Southern Pines - 02/26/06
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Trees - 02/23/06
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Dazzling White / The Lord is in the Knitting - 02/22/06
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God is Good, All the time - 02/21/06
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Googling Noodle - 02/18/06
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Illness, Sin and Cure / Water To My Chosen People - 02/17/06
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The Big Bang: Love Walked In - 02/14/06
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Cold Season - 02/11/06
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An Outrage! / If You Choose, You Can - 02/10/06
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The Return - 02/08/06
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Rage for Order - 02/06/06
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Jesus Claims Some Quiet Time / A Force to Reckon With - 02/01/06
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Fog - 01/30/06
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Mozart 250: 1756-2006 - 01/27/06
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Not In God's Name / Heat, Medicine...and Some Other Good News - 01/25/06
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Breakfast - 01/23/06
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Minneapolis - 01/21/06
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How Easy, How Hard, How Light, How Dark / Helping Those who Help Themselves - 01/19/06
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A Circular Saw - 01/17/06
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Soul Intimates - 01/14/06
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Premature Daffs - 01/10/06
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Dilettante Studies - 01/09/06
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The Day After 12th Night - 01/07/06
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Herding Cats - 01/06/06
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A Decent Tombstone - 01/03/06
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Black-Eyed Peas - 01/01/06
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Sanctifying Sloth - 12/31/05
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What Is Your Real Name? / Under the Stars - 12/29/05
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A Christmas Tomato - 12/26/05
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Measuring Carpentry and Motherhood - 12/24/05
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Just Plain, but So Sweet - 12/23/05
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What Normal Is Now / Gifts for Life - 12/21/05
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Grace Among the Linzer Torten - 12/20/05
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It's Not Over 'til It's Over, And Maybe Not Even Then. - 12/17/05
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Everyone's Mary / Mothers and Angels - 12/14/05
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Night Light - 12/12/05
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The Dance - 12/10/05
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I Must Decrease / The School of Hope - 12/08/05
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Anniversary Waltz - 12/06/05
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A Choice - 12/02/05
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Afraid to Hope Out Loud - 12/01/05
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A Popular Preacher / Comfort for the Long Haul - 11/29/05
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From the Primal Elephants - 11/28/05
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What You Can See From the Center of the Universe - 11/26/05
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An Heirloom Turkey - 11/25/05
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Felix Culpa - 11/15/05
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Coals of Fire - 11/12/05
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The Fire Next Time - 11/08/05
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Fall FarmFest - 11/07/05
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It's Not Always What You Read That Counts - 11/04/05
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Imagine Our Future Joy / Light in the Darkness - 11/03/05
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Buying Time - 11/02/05
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A Partial Litany of the Saints - 11/01/05
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No PowerPoint - 10/29/05
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Confused Trees and a Calculating Cat - 10/28/05
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When You Hear The Lord is on Our Side-- Run / Easy to Say - 10/27/05
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A Seat on the Bus, A Seat at the Table - 10/25/05
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All Aboard - 10/24/05
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Thank God It Wasn't Worse. Then Be Quiet. - 10/22/05
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A Welcome Contraction - 10/21/05
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Your Neighbor and Yourself - 10/20/05
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Open and Closed - 10/14/05
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Whose Image Is This? / Only God Anoints - 10/13/05
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Fellows on the Farm - 10/11/05
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A Long Weekend - 10/07/05
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Hell, Again? / Life Goes On As Usual - 10/05/05
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Building Wall - 10/03/05
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The Watchtower and the Fruit / Replanting the Wasteland - 09/29/05
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The Wrong Door - 09/26/05
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Equinox - 09/22/05
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The Comfort of Small Things - 09/21/05
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Getting It / Acts of God - 09/20/05
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Ding, Dong, The Book Is Done! - 09/18/05
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Stress and Bless - 09/13/05
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Beliefnet.com's Live Prayer Service for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina - 09/10/05
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Forgiveness / Jambalaya - 09/09/05
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Exeunt Hummingbirds - 09/07/05
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Nothing to See - 09/05/05
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The Waters Continue to Rise - 08/31/05
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Get Behind Me! / Waters That Fail - 08/25/05
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What's-Her-Name and the Watering Can - 08/22/05
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Holding Back the Sea - 08/19/05
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The Promised Land / Finding the Rock - 08/17/05
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Church Shoes - 08/15/05
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Shopping Trip - 08/12/05
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The Children's Food to the Dogs? - 08/11/05
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Away From the Farm - 08/08/05
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What Paul Would Give Up / Despair Will Not Stop Us - 08/05/05
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Enter Ethel Merman - 08/01/05
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Noodle and the Dragonfly - 07/30/05
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Outsider Gospels - 07/29/05
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Betting the Farm / Who Will Separate Us? - 07/27/05
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We Will Fight Them in the Malls - 07/26/05
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Tiny Spirit of the Garden - 07/25/05
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Boats, Nets, Fish - 07/22/05
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A Hippo Thinks Outside the Box - 07/18/05
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Only One of Each of Us - 07/16/05
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It's Not Over 'Til It's Over / Who's the Enemy? - 07/14/05
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Easter in July - 07/12/05
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A Psalm of Cats and Dogs - 07/09/05
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Friday Morning - 07/08/05
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Deliberate Attack - 07/07/05
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Home for the Fourth of July - 07/04/05
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Storm Cloud and Thunderbolt, Glorify the Lord! - 06/30/05
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Hoping Against Hope - 06/27/05
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Corpus Christi - 06/24/05
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Not Peace, But A Sword / Our Reward, Phase II - 06/23/05
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Geranium Fest - 06/21/05
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Gypsy's Workout - 06/18/05
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Faith Is Not An Amulet / Flee! - 06/16/05
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At Last - 06/15/05
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Job's Comforter - 06/14/05
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This Red-Hot Moment - 06/13/05
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Good-bye and Thanks, Friend I Never Met - 06/10/05
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Baking Bread at High Noon - 06/07/05
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Be It Ever So Humble - 06/03/05
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Ancient Sounds - 06/02/05
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WWJD / A Realistic Hope - 06/01/05
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A Host of Golden Dandelions - 05/31/05
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The Long Parade - 05/30/05
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Growth In Good Time - 05/27/05
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The Second Half of the Sentence - 05/26/05
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Lord, Lord! / Hear and Act - 05/25/05
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A Bed of Catmint - 05/24/05
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Inconsistent? Get Over It - 05/23/05
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The Great Commission / Goodness Again - 05/19/05
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A Heap of Human Hearts and Minds - 05/17/05
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Each and All, Together - 05/16/05
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Someone For Everyone - 05/13/05
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Melt Me, Mold Me, Fill Me, Use Me / The Repair of the World - 05/12/05
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Birds on the Farm - 05/09/05
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That They May Be One / Finish What You Start - 05/06/05
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What We Have Now - 05/04/05
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Ordinary Life, For As Long As It Lasts - 05/03/05
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A Perfect Afternoon - 05/02/05
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The Ivory-Bill Returns - 04/29/05
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The Kindest Cut / Tomatoes and More - 04/28/05
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A Chain of Human Beings - 04/25/05
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Return to the Garden - 04/23/05
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One Day At A Time - 04/21/05
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Beauty and Warning - 04/20/05
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Whose Troubled Heart Is This? / The Works of God - 04/19/05
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Cut Cleanly - 04/18/05
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Losing the Old Life - 04/16/05
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The Uncertainty Principle - 04/14/05
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Where the Bread Was - 04/13/05
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A Life that Longs and Follows / Our Practical Ambassadors of Christ - 04/12/05
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An Alternate Route - 04/11/05
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The Afternoon Begins - 04/09/05
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Love God and Do What You Will - 04/08/05
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Didn't We Know It All Along? - 04/07/05
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The Darker Side of Daylight - 04/05/05
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Two new features on our Farm - 04/02/05
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The Weather Canticle - 04/02/05
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The View From Above - 04/01/05
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Not in a Magazine - 03/31/05
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No Faith? Show Your Need, Instead / Aftermath and Healing - 03/29/05
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A New Magisterium - 03/28/05
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Mass in B Minor - 03/25/05
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FED UP - 03/24/05
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The Terry Shiavo Case.... - 03/21/05
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Measuring Prayer - 03/18/05
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Valle Crucis - 03/17/05
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At least, A Beginning - 03/16/05
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The First Mothers Union - 03/15/05
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That Fallow Feeling - 03/14/05
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Practice Makes It Wonderful - 03/11/05
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A Time of Rapid Change - 03/09/05
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Can these bones live? / I am going there to awaken him - 03/08/05
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Enter Sally - 03/07/05
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Two New Old Friends - 03/04/05
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Away From the Why and Into the What - 03/03/05
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Barefoot in the Snow - 03/01/05
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Abdicate the Lonely Throne - 02/28/05
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If It's Beauty You Want - 02/25/05
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Snow Prayer - 02/24/05
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Water in the Heat of Noonday / Water, Everywhere - 02/23/05
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Get Out of Jail - 02/22/05
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A Change in the Weather? - 02/21/05
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You Don't Even Have to Put a Nickel In - 02/18/05
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Another Path to the Same Place - 02/15/05
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Kitchen - 02/14/05
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Carolina - 02/12/05
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Blood - 02/11/05
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Sign of the Divine / A Mountain of Mud and Wood - 02/09/05
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Practice Purring - 02/08/05
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Power From the Wound - 02/07/05
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About Money: An Ethical Pause - 02/05/05
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Pray for the Pope - 02/03/05
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Get Up! - 02/02/05
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Northeast Corridor - 02/01/05
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Long-Form Improv - 01/31/05
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Election Prayers - 01/27/05
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Simply at Home - 01/25/05
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From Beige to Pink, A Mile High - 01/22/05
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That Explosive Beauty, That Veiled Threat - 01/20/05
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Dream Meeting - 01/19/05
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A Discerning Moment Takes a Long, Long Time / People Whose Lives We Know - 01/18/05
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Paper Chains - 01/17/05
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There Are No Small Parts / Strike While the Iron Is Hot - 01/13/05
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A Moment in a Church's Life - 01/12/05
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Still, They Give Us Love and Power - 01/10/05
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A Dark Night and a Seed Catalogue - 01/08/05
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To Each, Our own Joy - 01/05/05
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The Waters of life and Death - 01/04/05
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To-Do List - 01/03/05
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The New Year Smiles, the Old One Creeps Away - 12/31/04
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A Walk in the Wild - 12/30/04
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A Steady Beam of Love and Truth - 12/28/04
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Wisdom, Stature, Favor / How to Bless Those in Sudden Need - 12/27/04
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This Little Babe - 12/25/04
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A Birth With Honest Animals - 12/24/04
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Heavy Church, Fair Linen - 12/23/04
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Solstice - 12/21/04
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The Christmas Throne - 12/20/04
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A Christmas Laser Pointer - 12/17/04
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Animals Near You - 12/16/04
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Curds and Honey / Love Casts Out Shame - 12/15/04
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Shop. And Then Drop It. - 12/14/04
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What We Leave Behind - 12/13/04
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You Can Taste the Past - 12/09/04
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A Moment of Doubt in a Life of Faith / The Kingdom Comes, One by One by One - 12/08/04
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Safe and Warm - 12/07/04
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Buried Beneath the Brown - 12/06/04
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Strength That Looks Like Weakness - 12/03/04
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All Will Know of Their Beauty - 12/02/04
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A Shoot From a Stump / Involuntary Simplicity - 12/01/04
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We were Never Supposed to Get It All Done - 11/29/04
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Tradition, Soft and Yielding - 11/27/04
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For My Shredder and All God's Mercies, Nun Danket - 11/25/04
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There's More Than One Kind of Sweet - 11/24/04
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Against a Life of Might-Have-Been / Helping Is Always the Same...and Always Different - 11/23/04
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Exotic Visitors - 11/22/04
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Today in Paradise / Like Christ - 11/18/04
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Sex, Lies and Preaching: A Dream of Infidelity - 11/17/04
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Talking about War in Tennessee - 11/15/04
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The Coming Thanksgiving - 11/12/04
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Strange Meeting - 11/11/04
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Eating the Book / The Front Page - 11/10/04
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The Great Escape - 11/09/04
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On the Road - 11/08/04
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What You Win When You Lose - 11/06/04
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Noodle's Lessons in Niceness - 11/04/04
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Moral Values / A Knock on the Widow's Door - 11/03/04
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Behind the Curtain - 11/02/04
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Home Away From Home - 11/01/04
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Ms Subways: The Campaign Begins - 10/28/04
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The Truth, For Once - 10/27/04
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And There Is No Health In Us - 10/26/04
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Staying The Course (The Gambler) - 10/25/04
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The Favorite Cat - 10/21/04
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Later -- and Lower -- Than We Think and A Simple Saving of Children's Lives - 10/20/04
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Cornwallis at Yorktown - 10/19/04
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Citizen Q - 10/18/04
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Baking Friday Afternoon - 10/16/04
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Flu Season - 10/15/04
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The Favorite Leaf - 10/13/04
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The Sensible Knave / Stubborn Love - 10/12/04
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Thanks for Christopher Reeve - 10/11/04
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Ivy Wars - 10/09/04
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Hah! - 10/07/04
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Trust in Propagation - 10/06/04
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Are You Better Off? - 10/05/04
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Though the Earth Remains - 10/04/04
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Yesterday's Buttons - 09/30/04
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Mitzvah and Duty - 09/29/04
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Read. Think. Talk. Pray. Vote. - 09/28/04
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The Taj Mahal at 300 - 09/27/04
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But Thank God We're Alive - 09/24/04
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Love Renders Us Lovely/Us, Too, It Endears - 09/23/04
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Ineffectual Warnings and An Effectual One - 09/22/04
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Errata - 09/21/04
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At the Gate - 09/18/04
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Things That Don't Show - 09/17/04
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The Capacity for Indifference and Despair - 09/16/04
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The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness - 09/15/04
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On the Feast of the Holy Cross - 09/14/04
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We Who About to Die Salute You - 09/13/04
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Procession - 09/09/04
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Foreword: "Saving Salvation" and the ERD Sermon eMo - 09/08/04
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Our Town - 09/06/04
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Something to Fight For - 09/04/04
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Do I Have To Hate My Mom? / Ubuntu: We Are Never Alone - 09/02/04
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Mystery Vine Identified - 08/28/04
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This Bird Has Flown - 08/27/04
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Mercy and Truth Have Kissed Each Other - 08/26/04
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Auditionh: Just Tell Me When It's Over and "Here Comes the Wife" - 08/25/04
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Audition: Just Tell Me When It's Over and "Here Comes the Wife" - 08/25/04
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name? - 08/24/04
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A Glorious Tangle of Beauty and Ugliness - 08/21/04
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Enter Heidi - 08/20/04
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Pater Noster - 08/19/04
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The Bed is Too Short, but the Last Shall Be First - 08/18/04
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A Body At Rest - 08/13/04
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Talk, and the Author of Talk - 08/12/04
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Talk in the Garden - 08/11/04
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Prayer for Ordinary People - 08/10/04
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Cream Puffs - 08/05/04
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The Thief in the Night - 08/03/04
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Home Again - 08/02/04
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You Can't Take It With You - 07/28/04
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Go, Lance! - 07/26/04
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear - 07/23/04
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Good-Bye to Kenyon, Until Next Year - 07/22/04
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Real Food and Fairy Dust - 07/20/04
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A Summer Week of College Life - 07/19/04
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The Best Defense - 07/16/04
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The Herb Garden - 07/14/04
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Lazybones - 07/13/04
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The Saint of Lost Things - and Somebody Else - 07/12/04
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Bridal Shower - 07/10/04
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The Case Against Cat Ethics - 07/09/04
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What a Piece of Work - 07/08/04
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My Good Samaritan - 07/07/04
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Missing - 07/06/04
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The Fifth of July - 07/05/04
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No Vacancies Anytime Soon - 07/03/04
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Lavender Day - 07/01/04
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From House to House - 06/30/04
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The Holding Cross - 06/29/04
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The Early News - 06/28/04
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An Ugly Voice Within - 06/25/04
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The Tribe - 06/23/04
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In the Clink - 06/21/04
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Some Good Investments - 06/19/04
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A New Kitten, and a Cat Poultice - 06/18/04
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Outward Appearances - 06/17/04
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Rock Journey - 06/16/04
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You Only Live Once - 06/15/04
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Dear Lord - 06/14/04
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The Morning Sun - 06/12/04
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A State Funeral - 06/11/04
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The Bamboo Curtain - 06/10/04
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Mayor v. Noise - 06/09/04
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Preach It! and A Second Chance to be a Child - 06/08/04
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Call for Recipes and...Princess Beads! - 06/07/04
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Rematch: The Old Enemies - 06/07/04
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A Mountaintop Experience - 06/05/04
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The Songs - 06/04/04
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News in the Night - 06/03/04
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Just Tell Me The Truth - 06/02/04
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The Spirit and the World - 06/01/04
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A Subtle Progress - 05/29/04
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The Nurse - 05/28/04
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Seventeen - 05/27/04
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Summit - 05/26/04
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Tonguesof Fire, Breath of Peace - 05/24/04
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Don't Schedule That Funeral Until You Know For Sure You're Dead - 05/22/04
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Spring Concert - 05/21/04
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Alternate Side of The Street Parking Suspended - 05/20/04
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Even Now - 05/19/04
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The Rules of Engagement / Come to the Water - 05/18/04
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A Hike Worth Its Price - 05/17/04
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Get Ready for Joy - 05/15/04
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Fundraising in Hell - 05/14/04
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Flip a Switch. Turn a Dial. Press "Send" - 05/13/04
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The Olympic Track - 05/12/04
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Someone Else's House - 05/11/04
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In the First Grey Light of Morning, Peace - 05/10/04
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More Than One Way - 05/08/04
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A Princess At Last - 05/07/04
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A Ha-Ha - 05/06/04
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Where Are They Now? - 05/05/04
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Shame - 05/04/04
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The Yearly Hope of Hummers - 05/03/04
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A Walk in the Rain - 05/01/04
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Good-Bye, Bob - 04/30/04
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On Television, Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow - 04/29/04
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If You Really Cared - 04/28/04
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Some problems sending -- this may be a duplicate! No need to let me know... - 04/27/04
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The Lamb, the Ox, the Shepherd: Two Sermon Meditations - 04/27/04
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When Does the Work Finally Stop? - 04/26/04
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What the Flowers Say - 04/24/04
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Fish on the Beach for Breakfast - 04/23/04
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No Paired Life Is Seamless - 04/22/04
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Too Many Deadlines - 04/21/04
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Under the Dogwood Tree - 04/20/04
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Another Passion - 04/19/04
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They Can't Take That Away From Me - 04/17/04
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Hot? Cold? A Rose? - 04/16/04
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Where the Buck Stops - 04/15/04
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How We Know - 04/14/04
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Operant Conditioning - 04/13/04
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After the Easter Feast - 04/12/04
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Resurrection - 04/11/04
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The Bustle of a House - 04/10/04
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Two Words - 04/09/04
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So What Was the Sermon About? - 04/08/04
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Spy Wednesday - 04/07/04
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Who Is This? - 04/06/04
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Spring Forward - 04/05/04
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Be Careful. And Pray. - 04/02/04
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Dancing in the Dark - 04/01/04
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Time for a Pruning - 03/31/04
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Letter From America - 03/30/04
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Believing Our Eyes - 03/29/04
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Stars Fell On Alabama - 03/26/04
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Some Lives, More Than Others - 03/25/04
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Nobody Makes Us Learn - 03/24/04
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Morning With Godzilla - 03/23/04
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Embarazado - 03/22/04
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Look Big. Make Noise. - 03/20/04
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Life Together - 03/19/04
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The Prayer of the Presence of God - 03/18/04
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The Prodigal Son - 03/17/04
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An Almost-Spring Snow - 03/16/04
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Sunrise - 03/15/04
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The Space Where Sound Will Be - 03/13/04
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The Organizer Bag - 03/12/04
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Happy Trails - 03/11/04
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A Nice, Nice Dog - 03/10/04
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The Search for Armadillo - 03/09/04
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Not Silence. Fire. - 03/08/04
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Insert An Emotion - 03/06/04
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The Narrow Door - 03/05/04
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Common Sense. Exquisite Beauty. - 03/04/04
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A Terrible Beauty is Born - 03/03/04
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Eat Plenty of Chocolate. But Try the Carrot Cake. - 03/02/04
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Forcing Bloom - 03/01/04
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We Have People For That - 02/27/04
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Eating Like A Bird - 02/26/04
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Oh, Yes. I Remember. - 02/25/04
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The Challenge of the New Technology - 02/24/04
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News of a Friend - 02/23/04
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A Pleasant Train Ride - 02/21/04
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We Thought We Already Were What We Would Always Be - 02/20/04
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Another Day at the Factory - 02/18/04
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Prayer in Time of War - 02/17/04
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May the Day and the Year Be Just Long Enough - 02/16/04
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Heaven Remembers What It Was Like Here - 02/13/04
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Love That Dares Not Squeak Its Name - 02/12/04
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The Office, The Kitchen, The Chapel, The Office - 02/11/04
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Pattern Your Life - 02/10/04
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Up the Slippery Slope - 02/09/04
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Change Something - 02/06/04
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The Cusp of Girl to Woman - 02/05/04
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'Failure' Is Not a Dirty Word - 02/04/04
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Love is Not love, That Alters When It Alteration Finds - 02/03/04
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Super Bowl Sunday - 02/02/04
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The Scandalous Breadth of God's Love - 01/30/04
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Honorable Resignations - 01/29/04
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The Stockholm Effect - 01/28/04
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The Visit of Life - 01/27/04
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An Important Piece of Mail - 01/26/04
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Waterfront Visit - 01/24/04
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The Best Years of Your Life - 01/23/04
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Citizen Q - 01/22/04
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The Cross, the Turban and the Hijab - 01/21/04
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Take My Hand - 01/20/04
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Worthy of Those Who Have Gone Before - 01/19/04
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500 Bottles of Wine - 01/16/04
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Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem - 01/15/04
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A Public Service of Healing - 01/14/04
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A Rule of Life - 01/13/04
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Holy Communion - 01/12/04
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Living in War, Preparing for Peace - 01/09/04
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Dangerous Gifts - 01/08/04
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Pools of Water, A Row of Pine Trees - 01/07/04
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The Faith of Cats - 01/06/04
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After the Need is Past - 01/05/04
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On the Road Again - 01/03/04
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The Most Social of Our Phylum - 01/02/04
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Vigils - 01/01/04
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New Year's Eve Day - 12/31/03
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Blessed Order - 12/29/03
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Part VIII A Child is Born - 12/28/03
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Where's the Baby? - 12/26/03
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A Christmas Story: Part VII - A Story and a Stable - 12/24/03
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A Christmas Story: Part VI - A Baby and a Journey - 12/23/03
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A Christmas Story: Part V - The Table - 12/22/03
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A Christmas Story: Part IV - The Visit Continues. The Sojourn Begins. - 12/19/03
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A Christmas Story: Part III - The Visit - 12/17/03
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A Christmas Story: Part II - A Conversation in the Kitchen - 12/16/03
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A Christmas Story: Part I - Annunciation - 12/15/03
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The Truth is Alive - 12/12/03
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The Lord Be With You - 12/11/03
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Candles and Quiet Voices - 12/10/03
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Hope is the Thing with Feathers - 12/09/03
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A Long Winter's Nap - 12/08/03
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Demon Chocolate Spritz Cookies - 12/06/03
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Duluth, 1920. - 12/05/03
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The Collegiality Wars - 12/04/03
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Quiet Day - 12/03/03
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Time Travel in the Wee Hours - 12/02/03
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Eternal Turkey - 12/01/03
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Oh! The Beginnings and Endings! - 11/29/03
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A Run in the Woods - 11/27/03
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Your Turkey and Your Life - 11/26/03
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An Anniversary Waltz - 11/25/03
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Fly Away - 11/24/03
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Christ the King - 11/21/03
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I Gotta Be Me is Not in the Hymnal - 11/20/03
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The God of Leaf and Stem - 11/19/03
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The People's Temple - 11/18/03
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Let Us Bless the Lord! - 11/17/03
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The End of the World - 11/14/03
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Something's Coming - 11/13/03
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You Don't Run Your Own Turning Point - 11/12/03
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Veterans' Day - 11/11/03
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Silver in the Dark - 11/10/03
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Perchance to Dream - 11/08/03
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Not A Word - 11/07/03
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Your Life's Ambitions - 11/05/03
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Just Look at This Mess! - 11/04/03
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Time to Leave Each Other Alone for a Spell - 11/03/03
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The Dying of the Light - 11/01/03
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This Feast of All Saints - 10/31/03
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If the Internet Were Part of the Trinity.... - 10/30/03
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Let Us Bless the Lord - 10/29/03
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Somebody MIght Get Hurt - 10/28/03
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Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Is Dead - 10/27/03
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Flying Squirrels - 10/25/03
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What Do You Want Me To Do For You? - 10/24/03
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Dream Baby - 10/23/03
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Life, Stood Still in Time - 10/22/03
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Pie. Beneath the Sky. Right Now. - 10/21/03
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The Devil Can Take the Rest of the Day Off - 10/20/03
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Music Makes Things Possible - 10/18/03
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Disciples Behaving Badly - 10/17/03
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Pray for Your Enemies...First - 10/16/03
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Now Thank We All Our God - 10/14/03
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Invisible Beginnings - 10/12/03
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I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me. - 10/11/03
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The Rules - 10/10/03
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Home - 10/09/03
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The Mid-Size Divorce - 10/08/03
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Life Music - 10/07/03
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Second Chances - 10/06/03
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Room for Repentance - 10/03/03
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Let Us Pray - 10/02/03
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Nothing Gold Can Stay - 10/01/03
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Grandmother Magic - 09/30/03
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A Gentle Good Night - 09/29/03
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Stand Back. God is Free. - 09/26/03
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Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer. - 09/25/03
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Trust in God. Suspect Yourself - 09/23/03
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A Second Chance - 09/22/03
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The Garden and the Church - 09/20/03
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Everybody Can Be Great - 09/19/03
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Bad Things Happen When You Rush - 09/17/03
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Hail, Mary! - 09/16/03
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The Only Cross You Choose is the One Around Your Neck - 09/15/03
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You Are the Christ - 09/12/03
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The Tower of Siloam - 09/11/03
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Between the Crickets and the Coyotes - 09/09/03
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The Dangerous Hope of Autumn - 09/08/03
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Super Jesus - 09/05/03
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Pray & Choose - 09/04/03
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First Day of School - 09/03/03
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Getting Lost in the Woods - 09/02/03
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We're Not Climbing Jacob's Ladder - 09/01/03
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Food For Thought - 08/30/03
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Cleanliness Next to Godliness? - 08/29/03
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What We Really Need - 08/28/03
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Pets and People - 08/27/03
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Then The Imam Fainted - 08/26/03
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Life Goes On - 08/25/03
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Update Your Antivirus Protection - 08/23/03
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Just What We Need..... - 08/22/03
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Heads or Tails - 08/21/03
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Welcome Home - 08/20/03
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Curves & Carves - 08/19/03
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A Cursing Jesus? - 08/18/03
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You Could See the Stars in the Sky - 08/16/03
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Bread of Life - 08/15/03
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Hearts and Minds to Follow Where Law Has Led - 08/14/03
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Normal is a Statistical Term - 08/13/03
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O Brave New World, Dude - 08/12/03
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Don't Know, Must Choose - 08/09/03
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Bread for the World - 08/08/03
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Nasturtiums - 06/12/03
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Dinosaur Tracks - 06/11/03
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Small Victories - 06/10/03
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Yoga - 06/07/03
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The Feast - 06/06/03
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