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Swinging toward joy

It is almost too much for one heart to contain. Today I enter a new decade (precisely which one is available on a need-to-know basis only); on Sunday morning we Baptize a passel of babies and Confirm a marvelous group of adults and youth; on Sunday evening my grandchildren ...

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The goodness of people (and fried okra!

I am not Jesus and Jackson is not Nazareth. For that matter, I am not much of a prophet. But this week in a way I did go "home" again, certainly to one of the places I think of as home, to inaugurate a new speaking series at St. James' in Jackson. Created as an enrichment series to enliven the ...

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Never enough but using what we've got

Imagine my delight that Tupelo, MS, a sort of hometown for me, has been in the news this week. First it was an Elvis impersonator from Corinth, MS, who was suspected, even arrested, for mailing ricin to the President and a Senator. And then it was a tattoo artist from Tupelo, who took center ...

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Very few words to say

Awaking early this morning to write, I was confronted with overnight news about the Boston bombers -- one now dead, the other the subject of an epic sized manhunt. Like most everyone, I have heard a variety of comments and lamentations this week -- all I suppose well intended, but few ...

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It is, and it's going to be, alright.

Though a lifelong early riser, Wednesday morning Bible study -- at 7:45, thank you very much -- often prompts more thought than really seems appropriate at that hour. I like mindlessness at that time of day, a process I piously and somewhat high-mindedly refer to as meditation. Truthfully it is ...

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