I haven’t been able to write an essay for a while. I could call it an extended case of writer’s block, except that doesn’t explain very much. Who knows what blocks a writer? I could say I ran out of things to say, except that isn’t true. Just ask the classes I teach; they endure […]
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Prayer
April 25, 2013 
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For several years, I have said the opening and closing prayers at our college’s commencement ceremonies, a privilege I was granted soon after being hired. I probably appeared a natural choice, being a former pastor and the religion instructor. Or, perhaps more likely, nobody else wanted to do them. Most people don’t like standing in […]
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October 21, 2012 5 Comments
When I was in the ministry, I attended a dinner party given by a Jamaican couple who belonged to the church. They were sophisticated people, with a wide variety of friends, and that night one of the guests had a problem with the idea of God. I was holding a bacon-wrapped chestnut in one hand […]
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November 7, 2011 1 Comment
I was reading outside this summer when a hornet labored by and landed on a table. Beneath its belly, the hornet was clutching a small, green caterpillar as long as it was, which is why it could barely fly. After sitting for a moment, apparently exhausted, the little black vampire began digging its mandibles into […]
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