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How much wood does it take to burn a human body? Our Advent sermon today was from Genesis 22, where God commands Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, as a means of testing his faith. Of course we all know the story; it never changes

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December 11, 2022   |  by Christopher

The Lord Will Provide—An Advent Reflection

The Word in the Wilderness
March 16, 2022   |  by Christopher

The Word in the Wilderness

Advent: Impatience and Incarnation
December 4, 2021   |  by Christopher

Advent: Impatience and Incarnation

Lord, the Lord Almighty, may those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me;God of Israel, may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me. I have been trying to compile a collection of psalm recordings that spans the

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July 28, 2021   |  by Christopher

Praying the Imprecatory Psalms in Karamoja

Akisyon a Yesu, the name of our clinic, translates to “The Compassion of Jesus.” It’s the name on the roadside sign, the first thing you notice when you come to the gate. It’s also at the heart of the tension that I have felt ever

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December 6, 2020   |  by Christopher

Justice and Mercy: A Diptych

Doing Nothing as an Act of Faith
December 5, 2020   |  by Christopher

Doing Nothing as an Act of Faith

Piercing the Darkness
November 28, 2020   |  by Christopher

Piercing the Darkness

When we closed the clinic a month ago, the local leaders, in our first meeting on the subject, said “You have to open the clinic, otherwise people are going to die.” It’s easy to dismiss this as a rhetorical flourish, a hallmark of Karimojong oratorical

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November 25, 2020   |  by Christopher

Good Samaritan/Bad Samaritan

Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. You have sown much and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough. You drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns

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November 18, 2020   |  by Chloe

Musings on Haggai: Consider Your Ways

The cost of presence is absence. To want to be everywhere at once, is to want to be God. Yet in this nomadic life I often mourn my limitation to one place, one body. I have felt this price keenly since coming back from furlough

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August 8, 2020   |  by Chloe

The Cost of Presence Is Absence

In my feeble attempts to observe Lent this year I read (mostly) a devotional by Walter Brueggemann, A Way Other Than Our Own. It has short daily devotionals and prayers, just enough for a busy mother to be able to swallow each day. In one entry,

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April 16, 2020   |  by Chloe

Liminal Night

My own conversion to Advent appreciation came several years before our children. A combination of authors I was reading at the time, that love-to-hate relationship most people, myself included, have with the ever-greater and ever-earlier commercial observances of Christmas, and a new marriage with its

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December 21, 2019   |  by Christopher

Advent: Patience and Preparation

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