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Dear Beth Stroud: Thank You
You won’t remember the moment your courage began to awaken mine, but I will never forget it. It was my first Annual Conference, and I was home from seminary at Duke Divinity to intern for the summer at Wayne UMC with Joe DiPaolo. As I left the large hotel ballroom where we gathered for plenaries…
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Wrestling with Peace
“To have peace we must tell the truth; without truth-telling there is no peacemaking.”* (Jean Zaru) “Only by being truthful about how we got here can we imagine another way.”** (Austin Channing Brown) The words were like salve to my weary mind. A balm in Gilead. Oil poured out and running over. For three weeks,…
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An open letter to the lizard on the stairs
Stair lizard waits for me. “There will be critters,” I told myself when I was settling in at the Bahamas Methodist Habitat on Eleuthera. “The sooner you accept it, the better.” And I did accept it. In some cases, I even embraced it. Spiders for instance. I will never look askance at a spider again.…
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Lutra, the intersex chicken
Lutra, towering over the others, greets me in the morning as I arrive with food. “If he’s really a rooster, then I get to cook him!” Manex exclaimed, as my eyes widened with the horror of what I may have done. For weeks I had been trying to convince the staff at Bahamas Methodist Habitat…